Summary: Unable to automount form Sparc Solaris 8

Thanks to:
William Chow <williamc_49@yahoo.com>
Kelly Ormsby <kelly@watri.org.au>
"Koul, Minoti" <koulmin@ugs.com>
Webmaster - ITServ GmbH <webmaster@itserv.de>
tagriffin@micron.com
and others coming

Thanks to Teressa Griffin.I tried her suggestion and it works.

Her suggestion:
Linux typically has great difficulty dealing with direct mounts.  If you
stick with indirect mounts you will be much better off.



Other suggestions received:
1) automount on Linux is broken and needs to re-compile. - I have not 
re-compile;
2) Linux autofs didn't understand the /- identifier, use direct-maps 
instead - didn't work;, no direcotry listing though the mount was created;
3) Linux  does not support direct maps thru autofs;
4) Post the questin on other list - which I did on linux list and not 
much help;

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards
Alan

Alan Kong wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> The problem could partially related to this list. If not, pls accept 
> my apology.
>
> I was unable to automount file system on Red Hat Linux 9 exported from 
> Sparc Solaris 8. When I issued 'autofs  start' on Linux, no errors was 
> observed and the file system was not mounted even though the mount 
> point '-' was created in the root directory.
>
> The Solaris is running NIS+ in compat mode while the Linux is running 
> NIS. I had no problem if mount was used.
>
> Contents in:
> /etc/auto.master:
> /-      /etc/auto.direct
>
> /etc/auto.direct:
> /fs1    -rw,nosuid    server:/fs1
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards
> Alan
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