NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering AutoFS
Chapter 3100
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• “How AutoFS Works” on page 102
— “Supported Filesystems” on page 103
— “On-Demand Mounting” on page 103
— “Browsability for Indirect Maps” on page 104
— “NFS Loopback Mount” on page 105
— “Map Locations (Backends)” on page 106
— “Enabling AutoFS for LDAP Support” on page 107
• “Enabling AutoFS” on page 109
• “Disabling AutoFS” on page 110
• “Restarting AutoFS” on page 111
• “AutoFS Configuration Prerequisites” on page 113
• “Deciding Between Direct and Indirect NFS Automounts” on
page 114
• “Automounting a Remote Directory Using a Direct Map” on page 116
• “Automounting a Remote Directory Using an Indirect Map” on
page 120
• “Automounting Home Directories” on page 124
• “Automounting All Exported Directories from Any Host Using the
-hosts Map” on page 126
• “Automounting Multiple Directories (Hierarchical Mounts)” on
page 129
• “Configuring Replicated Servers for an AutoFS Directory” on
page 130
• “Using Executable Maps” on page 133
• “Using Environment Variables as Shortcuts in AutoFS Maps” on
page 134
• “Using Wildcard Characters as Shortcuts in AutoFS Maps” on
page 136
• “Including a Map in Another Map” on page 138