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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AMD and Sun's automount maps
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 17:15:48 +0200
Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica
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Robert Withrow wrote:
> 
> > I would like to know if there is any way of configuring AMD in
> > such a way that it could use the same auto.home indirect map that
> > is shared (using YP) in our local network.
> 
> If there is (a way to use the *identical* map for AMD and AUTOMOUNT)
> I havn't found it.
> 
> We use a perl script to automaticly convert the automount maps into
> AMD maps, and use the makefile to automaticly push them out...
> 

I suspected that. AMD is a great piece of software, but it seems
developed as a full replacement for the Sun's automounter, and it
does not fit well in a network served by Sun machines. This problem
could be solved if support for a new type of map -Sun's automounter
indirect maps- were added to AMD. Well, perhaps in the future...

--JM
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