Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] automounting problem
From: Everette G Allen (Everette_Allen@ncsu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 10 1997 - 08:18:47 EDT
There is sort of a solution to this problem. Andy Maas formerly of
Stanford Univ. did a mod of Netatalk 1.3.x to make it lookup the user's
home dir in a bind database by use of hesiod calls. The design was to be
used for afs but anything should work. Basically one puts a special entry
in the configuration files on their "hesiod server" (which is really just a
DNS server) of the form
user.filsys HS TXT "afs /afs/data/users/a/b/buid w /mnt/buid" which tells
netatalk to mount the afs path (could be ufs, nsf, dfs,afp, what ever)
/afs/data/users/a/b/buid for read and write in the local dir /mnt/buid and
publish it over afp. The volume shows up as "Home of buid" on the mac
desktop.
Check out:
ftp://networking.stanford.edu/pub/andy/macleland/netatalk
>On Wed, 9 Jul 97 16:17:46 BST cmt20@luigi.tees.ac.uk wrote:
>
>>Hmmm...
>>>From reading previous messages, etc., this functionality is not available
>>>in Netatalk as it is in Samba. For a simple fix, you could mount /iws and
>>>leave it to the user to find their folder.
>>
>>The directory is *automounted* Meaning that /iws is an empty directory. When
>>somebody cd's to /iws/fred the automounter temporarily mounts the directory
>>/users/data/fred from the intranet server onto /iws on the local machine...
>
>If it weren't for the automounting problem this would be an ideal
>solution because it allows the users to make public files in their
>directories and drop boxes. Then they can see others' directories and
>use their drop boxes. That way it becomes a file -sharing- mechanism
>as well as a serving device.
>
>>Oh well, looks like I'm writing a perl script tonight :(
> ^^^^
> That should be :-) --
> Perl scripting is fun!
>
>-dm
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Everette Gray Allen Consultant IV
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Box 7109 NCState Campus Computing Services
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