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Re: Static automounts

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Art Gorski wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 11:50 AM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
>
>
> When I automount a shared Applications folder in /Network, the client
> sees a busted alias in /Network.

Odd.

> When I automount a shared Fonts folder in /Network/Library, the fonts
> themselves show up in /Network/Library, NOT in /Network/Library/Fonts.
>

That is the correct behavior. You mouted machine:/path/to/Fonts on
/Network/Library, eg: "Mount the /path/to/fonts directory on machine X
at the local mountpoint /Network/Library" You should instead make a
/Library and put a fonts directory into it and then export that. note
that for AFP, /Library can be the sharepoint and it can live wherever, for
static NFS mounts it should be a real path on the server.

> I've tried putting a Fonts folder inside the shared Fonts folder, but
> that didn't work either.
>
> Oh, and it works incorrectly in either AFP or NFS. All my dynamic
> mounts and mcx prefs work fine.
>

I'm sure this has been mentioned, but you need to enable Guest Access for
the sharepoint for AFP access. For NFS, I've had issues with exports
in Netinfo not getting exported by mountd, so I've just started putting
them all in /etc/exports, dynamic V. static is determined by the client.
(In 10.2, mounts automagically looks at /etc/exports as well as netinfo,
regardless of the BSD flaftfiles setting in DirectoryAccess)

> I've been fighting this issue since last summer and I keep thinking
> that each OS update will fix it, but I'm convinced that it's STILL an
> OS bug and that it works randomly for some people and not others.
>

I think it's just a matter of getting everything in the correct alignment,
which seems to be fairly complicated. It's extra tricky becasue the
documentation sucks-a-bunch and you need to be extra sure that you
irradicate all traces of previous attempts, as one wrong bit of detritus
can make things go horribly wrong.

Also, the automounter sucks. HUP it often :)

HTH,

-n
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