Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!plains!lodin@plains.NoDak.edu From: lodin@plains.NoDak.edu (Steve Lodin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Automount on HP Message-ID: <6290@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 15 Oct 90 16:23:51 GMT Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 32 We are currently running a network with a bunch of Suns and a couple of HPs. We will be increasing the number HPs in the near future and are looking for ways to make life for the users easier. On the Suns we are currently using a package known as the "automounter". This package allows the operating system to nfs mount file systems on demand instead of the usual method of having the systems permanently mounted. We use this capability to allow a user to sign onto any machine and have his home directory and any needed applications available to him as needed. The paths to his files always appear the same no matter what machine he is on. By distributing the automount database through yellow pages we only have to enter the information for a user once and everything is transparent from then on. It was my understanding that Sun put the code for the automounter into the public domain. Does anyone have it running on HPs? (Tony B.? jem?) If so how well does it work? Are there other alternatives in use that we might use? Please post here or reply to: Steven W. Lodin Advanced Instrumentation Engineering Delco Electronics Corp. AT&T: (317) 451-8722 GM: 8-322-8722 Domain: lodin%koiasvr01.uucp@[iuvax.cs.indiana.edu or dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu] or lodin@plains.nodak.edu or swlodin@koess.gm.hac.com UUCP: [iuvax or pur-ee]!koiasvr01!lodin GM: LODIN, SW