From: Dylan Penhale <dylan@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: [OSX/ADMIN] Tiger -- Initial Report
   Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:44:32 -0700
Msg# 984
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:33 am, Greg Ercolano wrote:

> [posted to rush.general]
>
> Dylan Penhale wrote:
> > For the rendernodes the separate automount works fine, but for
> > workstations I have found setting them up though netinfo more robust as
> > they still maintain the other links in /Volumes.
>
> 	Yes, a few others have corroborated this opinion too.
>
> 	What exactly is the 'NetInfo' technique you're using?
> 	Is this where you hack mount points into "mounts" database in NetInfo?

Exactly. I started by using NFS Manager which give you all of the options in 
one nice GUI, then ended up just entering the data using Netinfo Manager 
manually. I think if I where to roll out NFS network wide I would do it with 
rsh though:

mounts

{
  "name" = ( "mounts" );
  CHILDREN = (
    {
      "opts" = ( "-P" );
      "name" = ( "hostname:/home" );
      "type" = ( "nfs" );
      "dir" = ( "/hostname" );
    }
  )
}

niload -r /mounts . < mounts_table

etc..

It seems that this way doesn't interfere with the other things in /Volumes

Of course it would be nice to stop using /Volumes but thats another thing. 


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