SAMBA digest 1688

[Jem Atahan]

>Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 11:24:43 -0500
>From: Mike Langas <mlangas at planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com>
>To: samba at samba.anu.edu.au
>Subject: Samba and Automounter
>Message-ID: <355B1ACA.84658F5E at planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com>
>
>I'm using several NIS auto-mapped directories.  When smb clients try to
>get access to these directories, nothing shows up.  This is because
>these directories have not yet been mounted.
>
>Is there a way to get unmounted file systems to show up on a samba
>client.  I can understand why they don't show up.  Automounter does not
>mount them until someone asks for them.  Unfortunately, I don't know of
>a way for a Windows client to force a mount like this.  Is there a way
>to get samba to use the NIS maps when displaying the contents of a
>NIS auto-mapped directory structure?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike Langas

I usually create a directory somewhere with symlinks back to the mount
points and set samba to point to the links directory. Of course, the follow
symlinks paramater needs to be yes.