ingolf@jellonet.de (Ingolf Steinbach) writes:
> On my server, the home directories of regular users are
> /home/loginname. On my other machines, I'd like to automount
> these directories on demand to the same path.
> 
> I have not succeeded in configuring amd for this. All I get is
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  31 Jan  3 15:10 /home/loginname -> /amd/server.name/home/loginname
> 
> And:
> % cd /home/loginname ; pwd
> /amd/server.name/home/loginname
> %

This is just the way the automounter (and amd) work with NFS mounts.
You have your amd "watch point" (in this case /home) and it is
separate from where amd will physically mount the NFS disk (in this
case /amd/<hostname>/<filesystem>/<username>).  Sun's old automounter
(and now amd) has been annoying users with this duality for around 10
years now.

There is a newer type of amd mount (keyword "autofs") that will try to
do the mount in place.  (see /usr/src/dist/am-utils/README.autofs) The
readme claims that autofs only works on a few OS's and is very alpha
quality.

-wolfgang
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