Ummm, as far as the manual was concerned /vol/vol0/home should be accessible over the automounter as /home, likewise anything else on vol0. From what I read (which may be completely incorrect ;) only for volumes other than vol0 are you required to use the /vol/vol# syntax.

I've set up a number of filer here and I'm referencing all homes and projects from /vol/vol0/dirname as filer:/dirname successfully.

Soooo, looking at one of my filers...

All directories in /vol/vol0 are "mirrored" in / under /net/filername, and also available over the automounter that way.

--Steve

From jdavis@CS.Arizona.EDU Thu Aug 13 14:56:53 1998 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:19:13 -0700 (MST) From: Jim Davis jdavis@CS.Arizona.EDU To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: /vol and client automounter paths. MIME-Version: 1.0

Due to some sloppy RTFMing, I apparently missed that as part of moving from one F520 to another I need to change every fscking client's home automounter map entries from

user server:/home/user

to

user server:/vol/vol0/home/user

(Or maybe try some symlink tricks but I'd really like to avoid that for efficiency and general non-grossness.)

<freak out>Aww, nutbunnies!<freak in>

There appears to be some backward-compatibility mode iff (and the manual isn't crystal-clear on this) you upgrade from 4.x to 5.x. Then apparently server:/home/user will still work.

But (he whines) what would've been so awful about making that a special case for (unupgraded) 5.x too? Rejiggering n+1 automounter maps is not my idea of a good time, and for various embarrassing reasons it's not just a matter of updating the NIS master or anything that simple.

Not to mention explaining to certain people here who have /net/server/home hardwired into their heads that they'll have to use the oh-so-intuitive /net/server/vol/vol0/home instead...

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