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From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
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Subject: Re: Automount on HP
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Date: 15 Oct 90 20:58:40 GMT
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In article <6290@plains.NoDak.edu> lodin@plains.NoDak.edu (Steve Lodin) writes:
>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. ...

>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?

I don't know whether sun have put automount into the PD but there is a free
alternative --- "amd" written by Jan-Simon Pendry <jsp@doc.imperial.ac.uk>.
This gives you all the capabilities of Sun's automounter and more.
Additional mount types, talks to hesiod as well as YP, runs on lots of
different systems.

We run it here on our HP's (300's and 800's running HPUX and MORE/bsd) and
our Suns.

amd 5.2 is available for anon ftp from usc.edu in pub/amd/... This version
was apparently included in the BSD 4.3-reno release.  There is also a 5.3
version that is currently in alpha release.

cheers
mark