Many thanks to the following : Steve Maher Jim Musso Valeriy Glinskiy, Thomas Autry LINDA S GEE Jason Wood John McNab Tom Jones Guy B. Purcell, David Glass Mr Rene Occelli Paul Clayton Matthew Stier All the responses combined lead to the solution. Basically : 1) - I added an entry in the NIS auto_master on the server as " /- auto_direct -nosuid " 2) - Created two entries in the auto_direct file on the server also as " /abc dummy:/export/home/abc" and " /def dummy:/export/home/def" restarted the automount service with automount -v. 3) - Then I copied the same files to all the client machines and now I have directories being mounted automatically. Logically, I think I should not have had to copy these scripts to client machines as long as all the client machines have " +auto_master" in their auto_master files ( it tells the client to check the entries on the server when in an NIS environment) but for some reason that did not happen. So, I had to copy them on all client machines but it works ! Original Message : Folks, I have two folders that I want to make available to all my NIS clients. I have shared these folders in the dfstab and I can mount them manually from any client machine. But I want these to be available automatically to all the users. For that, I understand that I need to add these in the auto_master file. I did that but it does not work. There were 3 exiting entries for /net, /home /and /xfn, they work fine. Here is how I added those folders in the file: /abc dummy:/export/home/abc /def dummy:/export/home/def after that I restarted the automount daemon ( even rebooted the server ! ) but nothing happened..... am I doing right ??? _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Nov 11 09:54:58 2002
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