Help with NFS and automount

Dear Brainiacs,

I am having a problem and have come to the end of what I can think
of to try. Scenario:

CLIENT MACHINE:
RH 7.2 Base
2.413-ac8 Kernel
autofs 4.0.0
mount 2.11g
pptp-linux v 1.0.3-1
Linksys BESFR41 4 port router

HOST MACHINES:
Gateway = RH 6.2 running firewall and VPN over PPTP RH 6.2 machine serving NIS (yp) and DNS
SUN Ultras w/Solaris 2.51 and 2.6 serving NFS shares.

PROBLEM:
Client machine IPL's without any problems. All of the machines in
the host network are accessible via ftp or telnet.
Several nfs mounts are mounted via the /etc/fstab, and mount without
problems, and are useable
A particular nfs mount point gets mounted by the automounter
successfully via a file /etc/auto.ccwork. No problems there.
However, trying to access the same machine as above using the
program /etc/auto.net, results in "No such file or directory".
No errors in /var/log/messages, nor in /var/adm/messages on the
Solaris host. I will attach the pertinent files.

Any suggestions with be greatly appreciated.

/etc/auto.master
---------------------
/ccwork /etc/auto.ccwork -retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15
/net /etc/auto.net -nosuid,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15 etc/nsswitch.conf

/etc/auto.ccwork
----------------------
ccStore19 dev3:/ccStore19
ccStore20 dev3:/ccStore20
ccStore16 dev3:/ccStore16
ccStore22 dev3:/ccStore22
ccStore21 dev3:/ccStore21

/etc/modules.conf
------------------------
alias eth0 tulip
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias autofs autofs4

/etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs status
-------------------------------------
Configured Mount Points:
------------------------
/usr/sbin/automount /ccwork file /etc/auto.ccwork retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15 /usr/sbin/automount /net program /etc/auto.net nosuid,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15

Active Mount Points:
--------------------
/usr/sbin/automount /ccwork file /etc/auto.ccwork retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15 /usr/sbin/automount /net program /etc/auto.net nosuid,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15

/etc/auto.net
----------------
#!/bin/sh

# $Id: //depot/autofs-4.0/samples/auto.net#4 $

# Look at what a host is exporting to determine what we can mount. # This is very simple, but it appears to work surprisingly well

key="$1"

# add "nosymlink" here if you want to suppress symlinking local filesystems
opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid"

# Showmount comes in a number of names and varieties. "showmount" is

# typically an older version which accepts the '--no-headers' flag
# but ignores it.  "kshowmount" is the newer version installed with knfsd,
# which both accepts and acts on the '--no-headers' flag.
#SHOWMOUNT="kshowmount --no-headers -e $key"
#SHOWMOUNT="showmount -e $key | tail +2"

# Newer distributions get this right
SHOWMOUNT="showmount --no-headers -e $key"

$SHOWMOUNT | sort +0 | \
       awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- '
       BEGIN           { ORS=""; print opts }
                       { print " \\\n\t" $1, key ":" $1 }
       END             { print "\n" }
       '

mount
---------
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /private type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
automount(pid837) on /net type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=837,minproto=2,maxproto=4) automount(pid835) on /ccwork type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=835,minproto=2,maxproto=4) nas1:/shared on /osd type nfs (rw,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15,bg,addr=10.200.10.2) nas1:/h11 on /home/h11 type nfs (rw,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15,bg,addr=10.200.10.2) nas1:/h12 on /home/h12 type nfs (rw,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15,bg,addr=10.200.10.2) nas1:/h13 on /home/h13 type nfs (rw,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15,bg,addr=10.200.10.2) dev3:/ccStore19 on /ccwork/ccStore19 type nfs (rw,retrans=10,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=15,addr=10.200.10.4)

/etc/nsswitch.conf (comments removed)
----------------------------------------------------

passwd:     files nis
shadow:     files nis
group:      files nis
hosts:      files nis dns
bootparams:  files nis
ethers:     files nis
netmasks:   files nis
networks:   files nis
protocols:  files nis
rpc:        files nis
services:   files nis
netgroup:   files nis
publickey:  files nis
automount:  files
aliases:    files nis

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<snip>

Does /etc/auto.net have the executable bit set? Does typing /etc/auto.net <hostname> return anything?, eg.

-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 \
/local marge:/local

S.

" READY. FIRE. AIM. "

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Simon,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, /etc/auto.net is executable, and if I
run the auto.net program as
you suggest it returns the following:

==============================================
[hostname: ] /etc/auto.net dev3

-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid \
       /ccStore16 dev3:/ccStore16 \
       /ccStore19 dev3:/ccStore19 \
       /ccStore20 dev3:/ccStore20 \
       /ccStore21 dev3:/ccStore21 \
       /ccStore22 dev3:/ccStore22 \
       /export/home dev3:/export/home

==============================================

But, for some reason, when I try to mount it, I get:

=====================================
[hostnames]# cd /net/dev3
bash: cd: /net/dev3: No such file or directory
=====================================

.....and as I was writing this, I gave it another try, and it's resolved. I don't know for sure what the original problem was, but the machine was originally a RH 6.2 machine, and I had done an upgrade to 7.2. Well, I backed up a couple of files, and did a full install, starting with formatting the partitions. After the cold install, and re-configuration, it now works. Thanks to all for any and all head scratching along with me.

Cheers....

Jeff.

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