From: Geoff Lane (zzassgl@zoe.mcc.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 10:02:28 EST
We have some Sun servers (mostly Solaris 8) where the automounter was
disabled and/or removed from the system. We now need the /net facility and
are attempting to get the automountd services running again.
Packages SUNWatfsr and SUNWatfsu are installed and the /etc/auto_master
and /etc/auto_home exist and are identical to copies we have on other
servers which have a working /net facility. The line in auto_master for
/net contains
/net -hosts -nosuid,nobrowse
/usr/lib/autofs/automountd is running (automatically started at boot time.)
Everything is fine at the server end - it is used by a number of other
clients on the same network segment and the same domain. Mounting the
remote filesystem by hand works without problems and it's not possible to
create files in /net even as root which suggests that it is being managed by
the automounter.
Trussing automountd shows that it gets activated when cd /net/<hostname> is
performed but it doesn't do anything useful like mount the filesystem or
give an error message (switching on the automountd debug trace doesn't
help.)
We've worked through the suggestions in in the Automounter FAQ
(http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/autofs.html) and The NFS Admin guide
(http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/802-1963) however nothing helps.
What should we try next?
Thanks,
-- /\ Geoff. Lane. /\ Manchester Computing /\ Manchester /\ M13 9PL /\ England /\ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:28:00 EDT