If anyone is interested, I finally figured this one out (after reading
the documentation several times, and an hour or so of google.com
wading):
The auto.master file on the NIS server should contain:
/home auto.home
and not:
/home /etc/auto.home
The NIS clients (via /etc/nsswitch.conf) then tell autofs to request
it's files (auto.master, auto.home) from the NIS server.
-Adrian
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 22:06, Adrian deLisser wrote:
> I am trying to use wildcards in an NIS map file on SuSe 8 to auto mount
> /home from several (NIS) client machines back to the server. When I
> attempt to use wildcards (as in 'man 5 autofs') automount spits out an
> error: 'lookup for adrian failed: Request arguments bad'
>
> Specifically, I wish to use wildcards in my auto.home file as follows:
>
> * -rw,hard,intr 10.0.0.1:/home/&
>
> with an auto.master file containing :
>
> /home /etc/auto.home
>
> Now, when auto.home contains:
>
> adrian -rw,hard,int 10.0.0.1:/home/adrian
>
> then automount works just fine!
>
> I cannot find any recent reference to such a problem on google.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> -Adrian
>
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