AIX 6.1 automount issues from Linux/Openfiler


 
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AIX 6.1 automount issues from Linux/Openfiler

Hello folks... have a problem here hopefully can find some direction with... we have a network using NIS authentication and automount for home dirs and other shared resources. Recently migrated some of our shares off of an EMC Celerra to an Openfiler solution. All of the clients in the NIS domain were perfectly fine with the change, except the AIX. Now, the AIX systems simply don't automount the NFS shares from the Openfiler on demand. I can however mount the NFS shares by hand (as root), but when I do that, it seems that the automountd starts counting down and then unmounts the fs after 10 mins idle. Next time a regular user goes to access, the share is not there. We still have some shares on our EMC Celerras, and those are working fine on the AIX boxes... I don't want to ramble too much here so to the point:

Where are the config files for NIS clients and autofs clients? I can look/modify using smit but I'd like to see the actual files! (been doing unix for years but not much AIX).

I have a hunch there is some kind of bug and/or compatibilty issue with AIX 6.1 and Openfiler. (in fact we do have this working ok on an AIX 5.1 box)

Thanks!
CruzShark
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SYSTEMD.AUTOMOUNT(5)						 systemd.automount					      SYSTEMD.AUTOMOUNT(5)

NAME
systemd.automount - Automount unit configuration SYNOPSIS
automount.automount DESCRIPTION
A unit configuration file whose name ends in ".automount" encodes information about a file system automount point controlled and supervised by systemd. This man page lists the configuration options specific to this unit type. See systemd.unit(5) for the common options of all unit configuration files. The common configuration items are configured in the generic [Unit] and [Install] sections. The automount specific configuration options are configured in the [Automount] section. Automount units must be named after the automount directories they control. Example: the automount point /home/lennart must be configured in a unit file home-lennart.automount. For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name see systemd.unit(5). Note that automount units cannot be templated, nor is it possible to add multiple names to an automount unit by creating additional symlinks to its unit file. For each automount unit file a matching mount unit file (see systemd.mount(5) for details) must exist which is activated when the automount path is accessed. Example: if an automount unit home-lennart.automount is active and the user accesses /home/lennart the mount unit home-lennart.mount will be activated. Automount units may be used to implement on-demand mounting as well as parallelized mounting of file systems. IMPLICIT DEPENDENCIES
The following dependencies are implicitly added: o If an automount unit is beneath another mount unit in the file system hierarchy, both a requirement and an ordering dependency between both units are created automatically. o An implicit Before= dependency is created between an automount unit and the mount unit it activates. DEFAULT DEPENDENCIES
The following dependencies are added unless DefaultDependencies=no is set: o Automount units acquire automatic Before= and Conflicts= on umount.target in order to be stopped during shutdown. FSTAB
Automount units may either be configured via unit files, or via /etc/fstab (see fstab(5) for details). For details how systemd parses /etc/fstab see systemd.mount(5). If an automount point is configured in both /etc/fstab and a unit file, the configuration in the latter takes precedence. OPTIONS
Automount files must include an [Automount] section, which carries information about the file system automount points it supervises. The options specific to the [Automount] section of automount units are the following: Where= Takes an absolute path of a directory of the automount point. If the automount point does not exist at time that the automount point is installed, it is created. This string must be reflected in the unit filename. (See above.) This option is mandatory. DirectoryMode= Directories of automount points (and any parent directories) are automatically created if needed. This option specifies the file system access mode used when creating these directories. Takes an access mode in octal notation. Defaults to 0755. TimeoutIdleSec= Configures an idle timeout. Once the mount has been idle for the specified time, systemd will attempt to unmount. Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a time span value such as "5min 20s". Pass 0 to disable the timeout logic. The timeout is disabled by default. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemctl(1), systemd.unit(5), systemd.mount(5), mount(8), automount(8), systemd.directives(7) systemd 237 SYSTEMD.AUTOMOUNT(5)