On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 02:18 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:04:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > Trying to get my head around plain autofs before I attempt ldap > > > > I can nfs mount via /etc/fstab... > > #srv1:/home/storage/users /home/storage/users nfs user,suid,dev,exec > > 0 0 > > > > It's commented out and not presently mounted > > > > why doesn't this work? (comments removed) > > > > # cat auto.master > > /net /etc/auto.net > > /home/storage/users /etc/auto.misc > > > > # cat auto.misc > > cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom > > /home/storage/users -fstype=nfs srv1:/home/storage/users > > > > # service autofs restart > > Stopping automount: [ OK ] > > Starting automount: [ OK ] > > > > # ls -l /home/storage/users > > total 0 > > > > it should show all user files > > > > Why doesn't this work? I've been through every man page, etc. > > > > Craig > > > You do know autofs has been set up by default so that it works out of the > box. Just keep the original /etc/auto* files, make sure that autofs is > running and do > > cd /net/server/foobar > > and you're there. All nfs partitions that a client can see are under > /net/<server>/. In the above example, the server exports /foobar. ---- I didn't know that thanks - in reality, that couldn't work for me without a lot of changes since the users $HOME directory is set by LDAP and it would have to necessarily have to be in the /home tree (or I'm doing a whole bunch of changes). The exercise wasn't really to use autofs as indicated but to use autofs via ldap and I just wanted an intermediate step to learn how it works. Thanks Now, if someone really wants to help, I've been pursuing the LDAP angle on tikanga-list since the LDAP server is RHEL (clients are primarily Fedora 7, still trying to work out regression issues in Fedora 8)... https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2007-November/msg00171.html which suggests that there is an ou called automountMapName but I cannot locate it in the autofs.schema (or any schema), can't create the dn as the documentation suggests in https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Deployment_Guide/s2-nfs-config-autofs-LDAP.html # grep -r automountMap /etc/openldap/schema/* /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/autofs.schema:objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.2312.4.2.2 NAME 'automountMap' SUP top STRUCTURAL # grep -ir automountMapName /etc/openldap/schema/* # I can see in /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.1/ldap-automount-rfc2307-bis-auto.master that the entry is there but I can't find any schema support for creating entries with a dn that begins automountMapName= anything Craig
