Basically, if it's indirect map, as auto_home, you don't need to kick "automount" on every client, but if it's direct map - you have to.

-----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Krueger [mailto:jkrueger@qualcomm.com] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:38 PM To: Rainchik, Aleksandr (MED, Non GE) Cc: 'Jeffrey Krueger '; 'toasters@mathworks.com ' Subject: Re: /home layout with many filers and NIS automount

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:16:20PM -0600, Rainchik, Aleksandr (MED, Non GE) wrote:

There is another thing against

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#auto_home NIS map user1 filer2:/vol/vol1/&

design. We have a lot of development servers. So any time you add/delete/modify a single user you should go trough _all_ the NIS/automount clients and run "automount" to let automountd know that passwd map has been just updated. Am I wrong again?

This is correct, but I simple cron job which runs periodically on all NIS clients should make short work of this task. =)

-- Jeff