I asked:
> The scenario:
>
> auto.master on the YP master
> /home /etc/auto.home -rw,intr
>
> auto.home on the YP master
> larry -rw,intr narnia:/usr/export/home/larry
>
> passwd on the YP master
> larry:<censored>:10:Larry Lai:/home/larry:/bin/csh
>
> On a 4.1.1 machine, this cheerfully automounts narnia:/usr/export/home/larry
> when I attempt to reference ~larry. On a 4.1.2 machine, it
> returns '/home/larry not found'
>
> Anyone have any clues? Is this a spectacular error in 4.1.2, did
> Sun decide to change the format, or ?
Well, thanks go out to Mike Rafferty for correctly identifying what I was
doing wrong. As it turns out, the problem was not with 4.1.2, but rather
with 4.1.1. The line referring to auto.home in the auto.master file should
be:
/home auto.home -rw,intr
Rather than the line I was using originally. For reasons which are known
only to Sun, the original line worked under 4.1.1 even though it should
not have according to the text of TFM.
RichardT
>>> inbox:13
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 09:39:35 PST
From: kla!brandari%sunra@Sun.COM (Paul Brandariz x6546)
Return-path: kla!brandari%sunra@Sun.COM
To: richardt@apple.com
Subject: Re: Inconsistent automounter behavior under 4.1.2
Richard:
You have to have an auto.home file on the 4.1.2 system which
references the YP map. Simply add the entry on /etc/auto.home file as
+auto.home
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>>> inbox:14
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 11:44:01 CST
From: Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
Return-path: miker@sbcoc.com
To: richardt@apple.com
Subject: Re: Inconsistent automounter behavior under 4.1.2
I'm not sure this SHOULD have worked in 4.1.1 ... this:
/home /etc/auto.home -rw,intr
should probably be this:
/home auto.home -rw,intr
Because otherwise, with the leading slash, automount shouldn't even
be looking for an NIS map. This change should work on both 4.1.1 and
4.1.2, so nothing will break.
Please be sure to summarize back to the list; thanks.
>>> inbox:15
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 13:54:10 CST
From: holle@ASC.SLB.COM (Kathy Holle)
Return-path: holle@ASC.SLB.COM
To: richardt@apple.com
Subject: Re: Inconsistent automounter behavior under 4.1.2
You don't have enough fields in your password entry:
larry:<censored>:10:Larry Lai:/home/larry:/bin/csh
^user
^passwd
^uid
^gid (or it should be!) something missing here.
-Kathy Holle Schlumberger
UNIX Systems Manager Austin Systems Center
ARPANET: holle@asc.slb.com 8311 North FM 620 Road
UUCP: uunet.uu.net!asc.slb.com!holle P. O. Box 200015
Austin, Texas 78720-0015
512-331-3000 (operator)
512-331-3646 (direct line)
>>> inbox:17
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 10:56:47 GMT
From: T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk
Return-path: T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk
To: RichardT <richardt@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Inconsistent automounter behavior under 4.1.2
Re:
>
> The scenario:
>
> auto.master on the YP master
> /home /etc/auto.home -rw,intr
>
> auto.home on the YP master
> larry -rw,intr narnia:/usr/export/home/larry
>
> passwd on the YP master
> larry:<censored>:10:Larry Lai:/home/larry:/bin/csh
>
> On a 4.1.1 machine, this cheerfully automounts narnia:/usr/export/home/larry
> when I attempt to reference ~larry. On a 4.1.2 machine, it
> returns '/home/larry not found'
>
> Anyone have any clues? Is this a spectacular error in 4.1.2, did
> Sun decide to change the format, or ?
Interesting. We have just hit something similar. We have two central
servers, one of which we upgraded to a SPARCserver MP670 and hence to SunOS
4.1.2). Other machines export to our servers, but we do not seem able
to mount from some of them onto the 670. We use the automounter, but as I
cannot even mount them "by hand", the automounter may (for once) be innocent.
(The ones we cannot mount onto 4.1.2 are from a different NIS domain,
but I can still mount from machines in the same domain and from yet another
domain. Might it be something with the DNS? The various NIS domains
in question have differing degrees of use of the DNS.)
This problem only came to light at the end of last week, and I haven't
yet had the opportunity to dig deeper.
Sorry I cannot be of more positive assistance.
Please summarise (or at least let me know of) any useful information
you receive.
: David Lee Computer Centre :
: University of Durham :
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: Fax: +44 91 374 3741 Durham :
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