Enhanced AutoFS Administrator's Guide, September 2005

Configuring and Administering AutoFS
Mounting a Remote Directory
Chapter 342
The following example contains sample lines from the AutoFS master
map on the NFS client, sage. The master map also includes an entry for
the direct map, /etc/auto_direct.
# /etc/auto_master file
# local mount point map name mount options
/- /etc/auto_direct
/nfs/desktop /etc/auto_desktop
Figure 3-7 illustrates how AutoFS sets up the indirect mounts for this
configuration.
Figure 3-7 Example of Indirect Mounts
/
/nfs
/desktop
/write
/
/export
/write
NFS server "basil"
NFS client "sage"
NFS mounts
/draw
/
/export
/apps
NFS server "thyme"
/draw
/pics
/bin
readme /wordtool
/pics
/bin
readme /wordtool