AutoFS With LDAP Support Release Notes HP-UX 11i v1 and v2 September 2005 Manufacturing Part Number : B1031-90059 E0905 U.S.A. © Copyright 2005 Hewlett-Packard Company, L.P.
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AutoFS With LDAP Support Announcement 1 AutoFS With LDAP Support Announcement AutoFS is a client-side service that supports automatic mounting and unmounting of file systems when users request access to them. If an automounted file system has been idle for a period of time, AutoFS unmounts it. LDAP is a directory service that stores information to be retrieved by clients throughout a network.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installation Requirements Installation Requirements To enable AutoFS for LDAP support on HP-UX 11i v1 or v2, you must install the following products: • Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX Use the following steps to download and install Netscape Directory Server 6.11 or 6.21 for HP-UX on your server system: Step 1. Go to the following URL: http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNum ber=J4258CA Step 2. Click on the Receive for Free button. Step 3.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installation Requirements Step 7. Run swinstall and follow the installation instuctions for this product on the product web page to install Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX. Step 8. Remember that you run the setup program with the typical installation as documented in the installation instructions on the product web page to configure Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installation Requirements • LDAP-UX Integration product You must install the LDAP-UX Integration product version B.04.00 on your client systems. Use the following steps to download and install the LDAP-UX Integration product on your client systems: Step 1. Delete the obsolete automount schema. Netscape Directory Server 6.11 or 6.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installation Requirements Step 8. Remember that you run the setup program as documented in the installation instructions on the product web page to configure the LDAP-UX Integration product. The setup program will import the new automount schema into the LDAP directory server. For the complete procedures on how to run the setup program, refer to “Quick Configuration” section of Chapter 2 of the LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installing Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 Installing Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 To store and manage AutoFS maps in an LDAP directory on HP-UX 11i v1, you must install Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 along with the LDAP-UX Integration product B.04.00 on your client systems. Perform the following steps to install Enhanced AutoFS: Step 1. Go to the following web site: http://h20293.www2.hp.com Search for Enhanced AutoFS Step 2.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installing Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 If Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 is successfully installed, the following message appears: ENHAUTO B.11.11.0509.1 Enhanced AutoFS, September 2005 • To verify that there were no errors during the Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 installation, run the following command: swverify ENHAUTO If Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installing Patch PHNE_33100 Installing Patch PHNE_33100 To retrieve AutoFS maps from an LDAP database on HP-UX 11i v2, you must install AutoFS patch PHNE_33100 along with the LDAP-UX Integration product B.04.00 on your client systems. Use the following procedures to install patch PHNE_33100: Step 1. Go to the following web site: http://www.itrc.com Click on patch/firmware database to get the patch. Step 2. Log in by using your User ID and password. Step 3.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installing and Configuring AutoFS with LDAP Support Installing and Configuring AutoFS with LDAP Support This section summarizes the steps to install and configure AutoFS with LDAP support as follows: Step 1. Install Netscape Directory Server 6.11 or 6.21 for HP-UX on your server system, if not already installed. See “Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX” part of “Installation Requirements” on page 4 for more information. Step 2. Install LDAP-UX Integration product B.04.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installing and Configuring AutoFS with LDAP Support • NAME ‘nisMapEntry’ • NAME ‘nisObject’ • NAME ‘nisMap’ The data in the following four entries defines the nisObject automount schema, the complete entries are: • attributeTypes:( 1.3.6.1.1.1.1.26 NAME ’nisMapName’ DESC ’Standard LDAP attribute type’ SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 X-ORIGIN ’RFC 2307’) • attributeTypes:( 1.3.6.1.1.1.1.27 NAME ’nisMapEntry’ DESC ’Standard LDAP attribute type’ SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Installing and Configuring AutoFS with LDAP Support passwd: group: hosts: networks: protocols: rpc: publickey: netgroup: automount: aliases: services: files ldap files ldap dns files ldap files ldap files ldap files ldap ldap [NOTFOUND=return] files files ldap files ldap files files ldap Step 7. Issue the following command to run the NFS client shutdown script: /sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop Step 8.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Fix in Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 Fix in Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 Enhanced AutoFS B.11.11.0509.1 contains the following fix: • AutoFS for LDAP support (SR#8606407223/JAGaf67129) This fix provides support for retrieving AutoFS maps from an LDAP database.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Fix in Patch PHNE_33100 Fix in Patch PHNE_33100 This patch contains the following fix: • AutoFS for LDAP support (SR#8606405774/JAGaf65687) This fix provides support for retrieving AutoFS maps from an LDAP database.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Limitations Limitations The following are limitations for AutoFS with LDAP support: • AutoFS with LDAP support can only retrieve automount maps from the Netscape Directory Server. • The nisObject automount schema contains three attributes: cn, nisMapEntry, and nisMapName. cn is an attribute that ignores case-matching.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds The following is a list of known problems and appropriate workarounds for AutoFS with LDAP support: Problem The positive and negative cache timeout lengths are fairly long. Therefore, if a map is changed, or a map is added or removed from the LDAP directory, the change may not take effect immediately.
AutoFS With LDAP Support Documentation References Documentation References For detailed information on how to configure AutoFS for use with LDAP, refer to the following documents available at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/internet: • LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator’s Guide, Edition 3 (J4269-90051). • LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Release Notes (J4269-90045). • Netscape Directory Server 6.1 Administrator’s Guide. • Netscape Directory Server 6.2 Administrator’s Guide.
