autofs

[Thomas Dodd]

Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 06:32, Parrish M Myers wrote:

>>It helps out greatly when in an NFS/NIS environment when home
>>directories are automounted.  As far as I can tell the 3.x version in
>>the distribution right now won't/can't do this.
> 
> 
> I have done the autofs-for-home-directories thing without any problems
> (other than fat fingering a config file :-) with autofs v3.  We use
> RHL9, RHEL3, FC1, SuSE, Solaris and Aurora without any difficulties. 
> There have been other distributions and Unix variants in there before,
> as well.
> 
> I am curious to know what documentation (or whatever) indicates to you
> that autofs v3 can not mount home directories?


It's direct mounts. Solaris (and others) support it.
So NIS has the full path, like /home/$USER machine:/some/directory

Also used a lot for a /net, where every machine and all it's exports are 
automatically available.

	-Thomas