Hi!
I'm trying to automount users home directories when they log on. The information about where to find the directory should come from NIS. On the central server I have a file to which the auto.master points to. This file contains entries like these:


john -rw,hard,intr host1:/home/john
bill -rw,hard,intr host3:/home/bill
sally -rw,hard,intr host5:/home/sally
fred -rw,hard,intr host9:/home/fred
jane -rw,hard,intr host1:/home/jane


Now this is really stupid in my opinion because I need to make an entry for every user. Isn't there a possibility to use variables or something like that so one line will be enough?

Or is it actually like this that I have to mount the path containing the home directories at starting time? I don't like that cause if the directory at the server will change I need to update every single workstation with the new path.

Best Regards,
Alex

If your using NIS, it should actually handle this. I don't understand why you would be using NIS along with automount?

Sorry but I don't understand what you mean.

When a user logs on, the home directory from a distant server needs to get mounted. So the system takes a look into the auto.master which points to NIS. At NIS the corresponding map, let's call it auto.map, is provided. And this map has the entries I mentioned before. Now this is my point of understanding. Am I wrong? Please tell me what you exactely mean. Maybe you can also provide some configuration files?

Many thanks!