autofs 4.1.3 problem

Hello Everybody,
I'm having a Red Hat Enterprise 3 AS installed on one of the
system. I'm having NIS & NFS network. I usually install Autofs to
automount all the systems on my network i.e.
/hosts/<hostname>/<sharename>
Somehow on my new system i.e. RHEL 3AS this thing is not working.
I've installed Autofs 4.1.3 on this system. When I go in to
/hosts/<hostname>, I do not see any share there. What could be the
problem?

thanks,

Pranay

On 2006-03-20, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm having a Red Hat Enterprise 3 AS installed on one of the
> system. I'm having NIS & NFS network. I usually install Autofs to
> automount all the systems on my network i.e.
> /hosts/<hostname>/<sharename>
> Somehow on my new system i.e. RHEL 3AS this thing is not working.
> I've installed Autofs 4.1.3 on this system. When I go in to
> /hosts/<hostname>, I do not see any share there. What could be the
> problem?

What do your logs say?

--keith

--
kkeller-(E-Mail Removed)
(try just my userid to email me)
AOLSFAQ=http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom
see X- headers for PGP signature information

well log gives me automount [<some numbers>]: mount(nfs): mkdir_path
/hosts/<system_name>/<share_name> failed: Operation not permitted

what could be the reason?

thanks,

Pranay

On 2006-03-21, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> well log gives me automount [<some numbers>]: mount(nfs): mkdir_path
> /hosts/<system_name>/<share_name> failed: Operation not permitted
>
> what could be the reason?

Does /hosts/<system_name>/ exist? I don't recall specifically if
automount will make subdirectories for you, but my guess is it won't.

If that doesn't address the issue, can you see if there are any
interesting log messages on your nfs server? And, perhaps try to post
the appropriate sections of the appropriate config files /etc/auto.*
from the client, maybe /etc/exports on the server).

--keith

--
kkeller-(E-Mail Removed)
(try just my userid to email me)
AOLSFAQ=http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom
see X- headers for PGP signature information

Hi,
actually I do not know why its giving error like that...automount
usually access the connected hosts on the network & shows its shares.
e.g. if I'm having a system named "A" & on that system "/home" folder
is shared through nfs.
I just configured autofs 4.1.3, edited /etc/auto.master & there I gave:
/hosts (previously "/net") /etc/auto.net
it do not actually creates the directories, it just mount system name &
share name temporarily on the system, if it is idle for say 60 seconds
that path will get removed automatically.
on other Red Hat (those are Red Hat 9) systems its working fine...only
on Enterprise AS3 its not working.
I wonder that I can mount all those shares manually, i.e. mount A:/home
/<mount_directory_name>
only automation is not working, if it was nfs problem then probabely I
won't be able to mount those shares manually too.
what could be the glitch?

thanks,

Pranay