Re: PROBLEM: NFS client mounts disappear...

Fred Richardson (frichard@cyan.bbn.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:39:19 -0500


> > [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> > My NFS mounts (from Sun 4.1.x or Solaris 2.{5.1,6}) servers have
> > a tendency of suddenlty dissappearing. I've been using
> > am-utils-6.0. My understanding is that autofs doesn't support
> > the Sun NIS maps (is this true?). Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> If the mount is disappearing, then it sounds like something has
> come along and done a "umount". That something is likely to
> be Amd in this case.
>
> The Linux autofs does support the NIS maps. We've got autofs
> running on the Linux system in our lab - and it handily mounts
> our home directories as we log in (our auto.home has 12,000 entries).
>
> Brent

OK, I'll give autofs a try and let you know how it goes.

-Fred

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