[geeks] /net with linux autofs 3.x?

[Mike Parson]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:48:07AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:03:27AM -0500, Mike Parson wrote:
>>> E.g., I'd like to be able to 'cd /net/otherhost' without otherhost
>>> being speficially named in a map.
>> Edit /etc/auto.master, make sure autofs is running?
>> That's how I did it years ago, but I've not used it in 4+ years.
>
> Nope, AutoFS 3.x doesn't support a Sun-style /net (e.g., "-hosts" on
> Solaris).  I'm having to upgrade to AutoFS4, but found a way to build the
> kernel module without having to rebuild the entire kernel.

Hrm, yeah, just checked, running AutoFS 4.x at home (RH FC3), /net
worked.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org