HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

Automount a Shared File System Using Text-Based HP SMH
NOTE: The Disks and File Systems functional area performs standard mounts. The
Networking and Communications functional area performs automounts.
1. Log in to the client as superuser.
2. Start HP SMH, as described in “Starting Text-Based HP SMH” (page 30).
3. Enable the NFS client, if necessary, as described in “Enabling and Disabling the
NFS Server and Client” (page 76).
4. Navigate to the Networked File Systems (Automounter) screen.
a. Press n, Networking and Communications.
b. Press s, Network Services Configuration.
c. Press f, Networked File Systems.
d. Press a, Automounted Remote File Systems.
The Networked File Systems (Automounter) screen is displayed.
5. The currently defined shared directories are displayed with columns indicating:
Mount Directory The full path of the local directory name of the file
system.
Type Auto.
Remote Server The full host name of the server.
Remote Directory The full path of the file system on the remote server.
Where Configured The full path of the file where the mount entry is stored.
6. Fill in the fields identifying the directories to be mounted. The information is
similar to the fields for standard mount; see Step 5 in “Standard-Mount a Shared
File System Using Text-Based HP SMH” (page 80). For details of the other options,
see the automount(1M) manpage.
Standard-Mount a Shared File System Using HP-UX Commands
1. Log in to the client as superuser.
2. Ensure the client is configured to mount file systems via NFS. The simplest method
is to use HP SMH; see “Enabling and Disabling the NFS Server and Client”
(page 76).
3. Create the local directory on the client if it does not exist, for example:
# mkdir /opt/adobe
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