I don't understand the difference between the two:
> > For those of you who aren't sure what that is, it allows me to have, say
> > /projects be auto-mounted when I cd into it (instead of /projects/*).





My work system is setup with NIS and amd so that even if a user doesn't 
have an entry in my local /etc/passwd, they can log into my PC.  There home 
file directory is /u/their_userid where /u is auto-mounted by amd.

While people don't general do this, amd is great for managing my CDROM 
drives.  As a generic user without special priveledges, I can press the 
eject button on the front of the CDROM, insert a CD, close it.  I then log 
into the system and change directory to the drive

cd /cdrom/drive0

and amd automagically mounts the CDROM.  When I'm done with the CDROM, I cd 
out of it and tell amd to unmount it with

amq -u /cdrom/drive0

I can then, as a generic user, eject the CDROM with

eject cdrom0

This also works for my CDRW drive, which mounts as /cdrom/drive1, and the 
floppy drive.


I had all sorts of problems with amd as shipped in 1.5 but eventually got 
the scripts ironed out.  Let me know if you're interested in them.

At 10:41 PM 5/9/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:10:27PM -0500, Rob Windsor wrote:
> > I'm setting up AMD on some of my development systems and was curious if
> > anyone had a working example of the AMD equivalent to the (Solaris)
> > automount direct mounts?
> >
> > For those of you who aren't sure what that is, it allows me to have, say
> > /projects be auto-mounted when I cd into it (instead of /projects/*).
> >
> > I'm just curious.  This particular answer will work with the standard
> > (indirect) setup, but there are a few occaisions where I'd like a direct
> > mount.
>
>I tried at one time and couldn'nt get it to work. But This was a long long
>time ago ...
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>--