linux-nisplus Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

[Gene Loriot]

The automount failure to mount, raw_data message could be that the 
particular auto_map is corrupt.  Can you load something like Hummingbird
eXceed and do a niscat to see if the destination machines can parse the
auto maps.  You may wish to check the permissions on the automount
table in nisplus.  We have our automaps protected so that if you are not
credentialled, that is not an NISplus client that keyloggedin, you will
not be able to see or mount our automounts.

Also you might want to snoop the wire to see if the system agrees with
the names you choose for the clients; your /etc/dfs/dfshare might be
wrong.  I have had problems where I share by the short name, and the
system resolved by the full name, thus did not meet permissions.

On the second note I would think there is an error in your auto.master
in that you can mount via some method.  cycling autofs is usually not a
good idea in that mounts made by the automounter will now never time out.
At least in Solaris, the use of the automount -v command is perfered.

You should not need an auto.net, the net mounts should be handeled by an
auto.master entery   
/net  -hosts  -nosuid,nobrowse    (or browse)

and check what /etc/nsswitch.conf says.  you may be looking at nisplus
for your automaps.  Remember the +auto_<anything> in the local files
specified when the nisplus maps should be consulted.

If either have any further problems, questions, or concerns, please advise.

Gene


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> From: "dave t" <d_dave at hotmail.com>
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> I'm having problems w/ automount and NFS. My users here are running Cadence

> simulations and after a while NFS will fail to mount. The errors I am seeing

> in the logs are:
> 
> Jan 17 13:21:53 dell380 automount[25111]: lookup(nisplus): lookup for 
> .raw_data failed: Partial success
> Jan 17 13:21:53 dell380 automount[25111]: failed to mount /net/.raw_data
> 
> The version of linux I am running is:
> Linux dell380 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:29:47 EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64

> x86_64 GNU/Linux
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> From: Hj?rleifur Sveinbj?rnsson <hjorleifur at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: NFS problems using automount
> To: dave t <d_dave at hotmail.com>
> Cc: linux-nisplus at lists.samba.org
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> 
> well, this is maby not a solution, but...
> 
> I have several computers running on RH 7.3 and NIS+ but I never got the
> automount to work (besides I read long time ago that it could be bad for
the
> server, but I don't know why).
> 2 weeks ago I installed Fedora Core 4 and after I set up the NIS+ (I did
> make my own NIS+ install cd about 3 years ago and have never tried the NIS
> setup that comes with the systems, just followed Thorsten Kukuk information
> that he put on the web at the time)
> and ran /etc/init.d/autofs start all the /net was automounted.  So I guess
> that the main change was in /etc/auto.net
> 
> The rest of the automount is still not working, so I just use links to
> /net/...  or just put the rest in /etc/fstab (like I do on the RH 7.3, and
> don't use automount at all).
> 
> -Hjolli
> 
> On 01/02/06, dave t <d_dave at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm having problems w/ automount and NFS. My users here are running
> > Cadence
> > simulations and after a while NFS will fail to mount. The errors I am
> > seeing
> > in the logs are:
> >
> > Jan 17 13:21:53 dell380 automount[25111]: lookup(nisplus): lookup for
> > .raw_data failed: Partial success
> > Jan 17 13:21:53 dell380 automount[25111]: failed to mount /net/.raw_data
> >
> > The version of linux I am running is:
> > Linux dell380 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:29:47 EST 2005 x86_64
> > x86_64
> > x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> >
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Gene Loriot, CSA/SCNA	
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