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From: ken@ag.msc.edu (Ken Chin-Purcell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: automount sun filesys on sgi
Keywords: automount sun
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Date: 16 Apr 91 13:37:44 GMT
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Andrew Torda writes:
....I have been happily using the automounter from sun to sun, but
....can't get an iris to automount ...
....
....Now, I have an entry in auto.direct like ...
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^
I had similar problems with direct mounts.  The 3.3.2 update release
notes mention direct mounts as an existing bug in automount.

My workaround was to put all of the mounts as indirect mounts in /rmnt, 
then place a symbolic link in the file system:

/disk1 -> /rmnt/disk1

Be sure also to merge SGI's /etc/rpc file into your NIS server,
so that sgi_mount is in the rpc NIS map.

-- 
--  Ken Chin-Purcell, Graphics, AHPCRC, Minnesota Supercomputer Ctr.
--  also known as ken@msc.edu and 612-626-8090