Difference between revisions of "HOWTO mount the Hall D work disk on your desktop Linux machine"
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<li> Ask the Computer Center to allow you to mount <code>/work/halld</code> on your | <li> Ask the Computer Center to allow you to mount <code>/work/halld</code> on your | ||
| − | desktop machine. | + | desktop machine.</li> |
| − | <li> Make sure you are running NIS on your machine. You probably are. Look for the process <code>ypbind</code>. | + | <li> Make sure you are running NIS on your machine. You probably are. Look for the process <code>ypbind</code>.</li> |
| − | <li> Test that you are getting the Computer Center maps for the work disks:<br> | + | <li> Test that you are getting the Computer Center maps for the work disks. Type:<br> |
| − | + | <code>ypcat auto.w.bb</code><br> | |
| − | should type out names of lots of work disks. If it doesn't you have to fool with your <code>yp.conf</code>. | + | That should type out names of lots of work disks. If it doesn't you have to fool with your <code>yp.conf</code>.</li> |
| − | <li> Add the following line to your /etc/auto.master: | + | <li> Add the following line to your /etc/auto.master:<br> |
| − | <code>/w yp:auto.w.bb</code><br/> | + | <code>/w yp:auto.w.bb</code><br/> |
| − | <li> Restart autofs (rebooting will do this, of course). | + | </li> |
| + | <li> Restart autofs (rebooting will do this, of course).</li> | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:18, 18 August 2009
- Ask the Computer Center to allow you to mount
/work/halldon your desktop machine. - Make sure you are running NIS on your machine. You probably are. Look for the process
ypbind. - Test that you are getting the Computer Center maps for the work disks. Type:
ypcat auto.w.bb
That should type out names of lots of work disks. If it doesn't you have to fool with youryp.conf. - Add the following line to your /etc/auto.master:
/w yp:auto.w.bb
- Restart autofs (rebooting will do this, of course).
