automount maps

[lshelton65gt]

I know that automounts are not a supported map, but was wondering if anyone
is doing it and how. The documentation is a bit lacking on the subject.

Thanks!

[dathho]

Not Supportted is a bit of a mis-nomer. Non-Standard is the M$ term. We use
SFU to provide automount maps to RH, SUSE, Fedora, and SunOS machines.

The original creation of the map needs to be done at command line
(originally (years ago) an SFU hotfix patch was required to create maps with
a (.) in them) but after that they are fairly easy to maintain using
ADSIEDIT. Once you have a working NIS for the standard maps use nismap
create to generate the structure for your master and other maps.

nismap create -i1 -g" " -y auto.master
nismap add -a MYDOMAIN -s MYSERVER -e "/home yp:auto.home" -r yes auto.master

You can add other maps to your master. We use auto.home, auto.tools, and
auto.util.

Then create your auto.home structure...

nismap create -i1 -g" " -y auto.home

and add entries to it

nismap add -a MYDOMAIN -s MYSERVER -e "user HMSERVER:/home/user" -r yes
auto.home

Check at each stage that things are what you expect with the yp* commands
from command line on the server or any client. Once your maps look correct
you may need to adjust your /etc/nsswitch.conf on the *nix side of things.
Once things are working you can add, del, and modify with the nismap command
line but it is just as easy to use adsiedit.msc and modify things directly.
If you have multiple servers make sure you do a yppush from the master to
propagate things.

Post back with questions or if you need additional help.

At our site things are constantly getting moved around to different
locations. With automounting it's a simple matter of moving the resource and
changing the autofs pointer. This really provides for a lot of admin
flexibility and a great amount of transparency to users.
--
David Thomas Hodan

[lshelton65gt]

David,

Thanks for the examples. It's a HUGE help as MS provides none.

Thanks again,
Lewis

[Ashish]

The SFU, W2K3 R2 and later help files have all necessary details about
how to start and work with auto.* maps.

- Ashish

[Ed Sanborn]

Have you folks ever seen this one. I am using Win2003R2. I have an
auto.master
map defined as follows:

/custsvc auto_custsvc
/export auto_export
/public auto_public
/home auto_home -nobrowse,proto=udp
/- auto_direct
/export/users auto_home -nobrowse,rw,hard,bg
/xfn -xfn

I deleted one of the entries as follows:

C:\Documents and Settings>nismap del -a genband -k "/custsvc" auto.master
Activity = Removing map = 'auto.master'
SUCCESS
Removing object. object = 'CN=/custsvc'
DN=
'CN=/custsvc,CN=auto.master,CN=genband,CN=defaultMigrationContainer30,DC=genband,DC=com'.

SUCCESS
removing NIS entries from AD

Looks good right? But when I ypcat the auto.master map again the /custsvc
entry
is still there!! Why is this? I could understand if I was running the
ypcat command on a NIS client or other slave server as the propagation might
not have happened yet. I daresay that even if I wait till tomorrow the entry
will still be there. Other changes seem to take affect quickly, why not with
this one?
Thanks.

[Ashish]

I believe you are running in to this bug - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969839

- Ashish

[Ed Sanborn]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I just applied the hotfix, rebooted the server, and
then
deleted the entry from auto.master. It won't even let me delete the entry
now
even though it appears to be there:

C:\ypcat -d genband -k auto.master
/custsvc auto_custsvc
/nt auto_nt

/export auto_export
/public auto_public
/home auto_home -nobrowse,proto=udp
/- auto_direct

/net -hosts -nosuid,nobrowse

/export/users auto_home -nobrowse,rw,hard,bg
/xfn -xfn

C:/nismap del -a genband -k /custsvc auto.master

Activity = Removing map = 'auto.master'

FAILURE
No map entry found
object class = 'auto.master', key '/custsvc'.

FAILURE

removing NIS entries from AD

What the heck is up with that??

Thanks,

Ed