This is a DDWID - Don't Do What I Did - post. I am in the process of splitting my box into two since the drives were physically overflowing the case. Got the 2nd box put together fine and decided to start moving things over. Since I still wanted access to the moved drives, I figured it was time to investigate and setup autofs for mounting the remote drives. After an hour of google searches and manpage perusals, it was time to start configuring everything. I thought I had grokked it all OK and wrote the /etc/auto.master file with the following entry: /home/jb/birds auto.birds --timeout=10 Stop laughing now, people. I fired it up in X on the destination box and watched as my Gnome panel disappeared as soon as I clicked on it. WTF??? Had to CTRL-ALT-BS to get to console and kill X. That's when I noticed that my normal prompt was replaced by the stock bash prompt. Hmmmmm. Visions of losing my home drive wafted in front of my eyes. Checked my backup drive and all fine so I wasn't worried much. Did a quick "mount" and sure enough, the remote directory was mounted OVER my /home/jb directory. My destination box no longer had a working home directory. The moral of the story is that automount takes over the root of the directory you want mounted. So that is why they give you /misc to play around with. The solution was to rewrite the auto.master as: /misc auto.misc --timeout=10 and the auto.misc as: birds -fstype=nfs,rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,no_root_squash,intr monique:/home/jb4/birds Then I just did "ln -s /misc/birds /home/jb/birds" and I was away to the races. Hope this gives somebody a chuckle or two for the day. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
