[ILUG] Direct mounts in Linux

[Walter Faleiro]

Hi Folks,
I need some help in using direct mounts on a linux system.

I have  a  two NFS servers, one of them which is a NIS master too.

Following maps are exported by the nis master

auto.software1 nismaster
auto.software2 nismaster
auto.home nismaster
auto.master nismaster


Now on the client linux systems
cd /software1 and cd /software2 is blank initially, when I change directory
withing the folder it mounts from the nfs server. All fine here.


What I need is /software1 and /software2 to list all the subfolders before I
actually CD into them. In other words, they should be available as if they
are on the local system. An ls should show them.

For this I used the auto.master file on the linux client as

# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#/misc  /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
#/misc  /etc/auto.misc
#/net   /etc/auto.net
/home   /etc/auto.home   --timeout=3600
/-     /etc/auto.direct



And the /etc/auto.direct file on the linux client is


/software1 -ro,soft 192.168.100.10:/export
/software2 -ro,soft 192.168.100.11:/export


But when I try to do a ls under /software1 or /software2, it does not show
anything, neither does cd <foldername> take me to the desired folder.
I guess there is something wrong in the way I have tried to use auto.direct.

Can someone shed more light on this.

Thanks,
--Walter