Hello,
I've been struggling to get this to work for some time. The OS is FDC4. I have the automounter mounting home directories from an NFS server using automount information in files. This works excellent.

User/group information comes from files and LDAP. I'm using the autofs.schema that comes with Fedora Core 4 under /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/autofs.schema.

My nsswitch.conf is setup for automount files ldap. I want to automount directories from the NFS server with info from the LDAP directory. Can't seem to get it right.

Question
Can I have an auto.master both as a file and in LDAP without it causing problems?

My goal is to mount the NFS server /accounts/common directory on the client machines as /accounts/common.

Here is my LDAP context:
dc=klnc,dc=net

I have an entry:
ou=auto.master,dc=klnc,dc=net
Under this I have:
cn=/accounts/common,ou=auto.master,dc=klnc,dc=net
automountinformation:ldapu=auto.common,dc=klnc,dc=net --timeout=60

ou=auto.common,dc=klnc,dc=net
Under this I have
cn=common,ou=auto.common,dc=klnc,dc=net
automountinformation: 192.168.15.2:/accounts/common

Any help would be appreciated.

Kent L. Nasveschuk
I get nothing

My best guess is that, since nsswitch.conf lists files ldap, it only goes to the LDAP if files fails. I'm not sure how you'd get to doing this using a combination of the two, unless you wanted to write a script to read from files maybe?

Hi,
Thanks I'll try that but I'm not sure if that is the issue. I have files ldap for password, shadow group which allows a local or LDAP user to login. Also if you have an account that is in 2 locations either password wil work, for example root. I'll try your suggestion though and get back to you.

Kent N