[CentOS] autofs problem on CentOS6

Ross Walker rswwalker at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 13:01:22 UTC 2011


On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:02 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'm trying to use autofs with Active Directory.
> 
> This works:
> 
> autofs_ldap_auth.conf:
> 
> <autofs_ldap_sasl_conf
>    usetls="yes"
>    tlsrequired="yes"
>    authrequired="yes"
>    clientprinc="nfs/myhost at MYDOMAIN"
> />
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/autofs:
> 
> LDAP_URI="ldap://domaincontroller1 ldap://domaincontroller2"
> 
> This also works if I replace the auth with a DIGEST-MD5 from GSSAPI (which
> gets used by default).  Good so far.
> 
> However, I don't want to explicitly list the domain controllers.  Discovering
> them via SRV records fails to work (even though logging clearly shows it's
> discovered the correct records).  Going via a round-robin DNS target for th
> LDAP_URI also fails, as I think autofs expects the server to think of itself
> under the round-robin name, rather than its primary name, which breaks both
> DIGEST and GSSAPI.
> 
> Anyone got any pointers on how to make this work, or is just a bug that I
> should track down?

Did you try the built-in round robin DNS, which is the domain name itself?

This works for me.

-Ross




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