04-24-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by XNOR
"When the automount daemon is initialized on the server, no exported directories are mounted by the clients."
which exported directories were being told about? On server side or client side?
In the Network File System (NFS) there are two types of filesystems:
1) A filesystem mounted local on the NFS server which is exported
and
2) A filesystem remote to the client system which is mounted across a local filesystem. Like this:
SystemA is the host and has filesystem /home/blog which is NFS exported.
SystemB has a local filesystem /home/blog and the remote filesystem /home/blog from SystemA is NFS mounted across it. The result is that only the files on SystemA /home/blog will be seen. Do not mix up the local filesystem /export with the NFS "Exported" filesystems they are two different things.
Hope this helps.
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ipa-client-automount
ipa-client-automount(1) IPA Manual Pages ipa-client-automount(1)
NAME
ipa-client-automount - Configure automount and NFS for IPA
SYNOPSIS
ipa-client-automount [OPTION]... <location>
DESCRIPTION
Configures automount for IPA.
The automount configuration consists of three files:
o /etc/nsswitch.conf
o /etc/sysconfig/autofs
o /etc/autofs_ldap_auth.conf
By default this will use DNS discovery to attempt to determine the IPA server(s) to use. If IPA servers are discovered then the automount
client will be configured to use DNS discovery.
If DNS discovery fails or a specific server is desired, use the --server option.
The default automount location is named default. To specify a different one use the --location option.
The IPA client must already be configured in order to configure automount. The IPA client is configured as part of a server installation.
There are two ways to configure automount. The default is to use sssd to manage the automount maps. Alternatively autofs can configured to
bind to LDAP over GSSAPI and authenticate using the machine's host principal.
The nsswitch automount service is configured to use either sss or ldap and files depending on whether SSSD is configured or not.
NFSv4 is also configured. The rpc.gssd and rpc.idmapd are started on clients to support Kerberos-secured mounts.
OPTIONS
--server=SERVER Set the IPA server to connect to
--location=LOCATION
Automount location
-S, --no-sssd
Do not configure the client to use SSSD for automount
-d, --debug
Print debugging information to stdout
-U, --unattended
Unattended installation. The user will not be prompted
--uninstall
Restore the automount configuration files
FILES
Files that will be always be configured:
/etc/nsswitch.conf
Files that will be configured when SSSD is the automount client (default):
/etc/sssd/sssd.conf
Files that will be configured when using the ldap automount client:
/etc/sysconfig/autofs
/etc/autofs_ldap_auth.conf
EXIT STATUS
0 if the installation was successful
1 if an error occurred
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