[TriLUG] NFS client on Laptop configuration question, and an Ubuntu tip

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 14:55:33 EST 2005


On 12/19/05, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>
> > Just to be clear on what you mean, are you talking about using the
> > auto option in /etc/fstab, or are you running the autofs daemon?  From
> > the talk about timeouts I'm guessing that it's the latter.
>
> yes, the latter.
>
> It requires a bit of setting up and figuring out the syntax
> of the conf files. I have all the partitions (/, /usr, /src)
> from the server exported, so on the client I have the
> server's directories all mounted under the server's name.
>
> /server_name/
> /server_name/usr/
> /server_name/src/
>
> They are all mounted and umounted together by automount

Yeah, that's what I'm scratching my head about.

So I guess you have something like

/server_name /etc/auto.server_name

But then what goes into /etc/auto.server_name?  The how-tos I've found
seem to focus mostly on automounting floppies and CDs but aren't real
clear about how to do nfs mounts.

What I'm doing now with my manual nfs mount is to export /public on
the server and mount it as /public on the client as well. I guess I'm
going to have to change this to use autofs.

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Rick DeNatale

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