savvysim@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When our Linux NFS/NIS clients try to list mounted shares


> from our
> Solaris NFS/NIS server, no items are returned. If you know the name of
> the directory/share, you can change to it and after that, it will list
> until it times out (60 seconds) and then the share is no longer
> visible again.

They are not mounted except on demand - it sounds like you are using an
automounter, so assuming that is autofs (as opposed to amd) then
add --ghost in the auto.master file.

Here's one of my entries:

/vol /etc/auto.vol --timeout=60 --ghost hard,intr,wsize=8192,rsize=8192,tcp


>
> This is not an issue for our Solaris NFS/NIS clients as they always
> list the shares, with the exception of our 'home' directories, which
> use the '-nobrowse' option on our 'auto.master' NIS map.

I would guess -nobrowse is the inverse of --ghost

> Not a show stopper but annoying and not finding much on the web. Any
> suggestions?

HTH

Tim

Thanks Tim! That took care of it!

Aaron

savvysim@hotmail.com wrote:

> Thanks Tim! That took care of it!
>
> Aaron


No worries

I would add, if yours is a large site (> few hundred clients) beware of
doing this to every client.

Certain "innocent" browsing operations on the parent directory (/vol) in my
example by many GUI filemanagers will cause everything to get mounted,
hammering your server(s).

Rox, for example, does crazy crap like this (from an strace)

lstat64("/vol/wwwsource/.DirIcon" ...
lstat64("/vol/wwwsource/AppRun" ...

I've seen gnome and/or kde do this, probably for similar reasons.

It's OK if the server(s) is/are beefy or client activity is low, but given
the wrong conditions, it can be bad news.

Cheers

Tim