mounting nfs directory using autofs

[Steven J. Brown]

Ankush Grover wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:30:43 -0500, Steven J. Brown
><sbrown3 at optonline.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm trying to use autofs in its simplest possible form, following
>>examples in Red Hat's documentation, to mount an nfs directory from my
>>desktop pc to my notebook.  Everything seems to be in place because I
>>can mount the nfs export manually (at the command line or with
>>/etc/fstab) with no problem.  I want to do this because I connect my
>>notebook to three different networks (or sometimes I don't connect to a
>>network) and on startup, the notebook seems to take forever looking for
>>the networks (to mount smbfs/nfs/ncpfs directories) that arent' there.
>>I'm hoping that autofs will reduce boot time.  To get started, I tried a
>>simple one.  Here's how I've set it up:
>>
>>Server (Desktop PC):
>>/etc/exports:
>>/home/sbrown    192.168.2.3(rw,sync)
>>
>>Notebook:
>>/etc/auto.master:
>>/misc   /etc/auto.misc
>>
>>/etc/hosts:
>>192.168.2.4   dadlx
>>
>>/etc/auto.misc:
>>dad   -rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192   dadlx:/home/sbrown
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>you have written dad in this line where it is dadlx
>
> dad   -rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192   dadlx:/home/sbrown
>
>you can replace dad with * .
>
>*   -rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192   dadlx:/home/sbrown
>
>I think that should solve ur problem.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Ankush
>
>  
>
The '*' doesn't seem to be working.  Anything else you can think of?

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