lynn said the following on 03/28/2012 02:02 PM:
And yes. Very neat.
Neater, and ultimately cleaner when you come to dump it all into YP/NIS/LDAP, is to have a map table per server :::::::::::::: auto.master :::::::::::::: /mnt/homeserver /etc/auto.homeserver # /mnt/homeserver ldap:ldapservername:homeserver # or # /mnt/homeserver homeserver # if using nsswitch for 'type' # see settings in /etc/sysconfig/autofs # for LDAP entries /mnt/fileserver /etc/auto.fileserver /mnt/CDserver /etc/auto.CDserver /mnt/local /etc/auto.local :::::::::::::: That last entry has proven very very useful :-) So WHY? Don't mount on 'where its going to go'; use symlinks. It's safer. Its more flexible. Mount everything under /mnt. "That's what 'mnt' is for ..." It lets you see all the things that you mount. It offers a flexibility. In the long run you are going to shed load; not all homes will come from the same server (another reason not to put it directly on /home) and people might want to dynamically mount other files from the file server or CD server. I have the music server under everyone's ~/Media/Music/Shared/ as a dynamic mount on demand. The template on account creation sets up ~/Media/Music/Shared as a symlink to /mnt/CDserver/Music/Shared/ As you might guess, not everything on the CD server is actually a CD :-) PLEASE do look at /etc/sysconfig/autofs and please do read autofs(5).
Upon user login, are any of the following correct?
1. The log shows that only the user folder has been mounted
That will depend on what you have in PAM for login. (Are we talking CLI or GUI?)
2. The other folders under /DOMAIN are available but are only mounted on demand
If you think about how the wild-card mechanism has to work .... The alternative is the way I do it with symlinks. You may find that the "mount at /mnt and use symlinks" ends up with things being a lot clearer. Or at least more is visible (and hewnce understandable and debugable)
3. At the cli, you have to know the names of other shared folders that are there. 4. In a gui you don't.
Isn't that always the case? If I use Dolphin it has actually scanned to build the GUI that it presents.
5. There is no cli auto completion (hit tab after the first few letters) for non mounted folders.
That seems reasonable, for the way you are doing it. Its why I prefer the "mount at /mnt" so I can see them all :-)
6. It would be better to get out the big hammer and stick the automount map stuff in LDAP.
See my notes above, /etc/sysconfig/autofs and autofs(5) I don't recall having all this trouble.... -- shin (n): A device for finding furniture in the dark. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org