Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!sapwdf!wohler From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX Automounter Keywords: automount Message-ID: <2616@sapwdf.UUCP> Date: 26 Feb 91 14:00:38 GMT References: <3478@d75.UUCP> Reply-To: Bill Wohler Distribution: comp Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany Lines: 28 we've had good experience with the automounter so i'm posting my configuration as a sample. i am annoyed that the automounter won't mount nested requests. that is, if both /usr/foo and /usr/foo/baz are nfs filesystems, you can't get to /usr/foo/baz. does anyone have experience with amd on aix? does it get around these restrictions? the automounter is started in /etc/rc right after the regular mounts: # Perform all auto mounts echo " Performing all automatic mounts " mount all /usr/etc/automount /net /etc/mount.map /etc/mount.map contains, for example: usr.src -rw,hard,intr aix3:/usr/src /usr/src is a symbolic link to /net/usr.src. the person who was having trouble with -host flag might want to use this logic instead of having a huge automount file. --bw wohler@sap-ag.de Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com