NFS Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering AutoFS

Automounting Home Directories

Chapter 3 125

AutoFS reads the auto_home map to find out how to mount Howard’s

home directory. It finds the following line:

howard basil:/export/home/& -nosuid

AutoFS substitutes howard for the ampersand (&) character in that line:

howard basil:/export/home/howard -nosuid

AutoFS mounts /export/home/howard from server basil to the local

mount point /home/howard on the NFS client. Figure 3-5 illustrates this

configuration.

Figure 3-5 Home Directories Automounted with Wildcards

NFS server Basil Local NFS Client

/home

/howard

/home

/howard

/export

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