Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> > wrote: >> Care to explain those two. direct versus indirect mapping? >> >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Another thing you may want to consider is use of 'direct map' instead >>> of 'indirect map'. If I remember correctly, it works well with cifs >>> mounts, too. > > I'm sure you can find nice documentations that explain the two mapping > methods. Just briefly, With 'direct map', you can mount virtually at > any point because it uses absolute paths. In some situations (like > mounting directly under /), 'direct map' is the only option for > autofs. > > In /etc/auto.master, you add a line similar to: > > /- /etc/auto.direct > > And in /etc/auto.direct, you may have: > > /mounthere -fstype=cifs,rw,blah ://machine/share > Is auto.net considered direct mounting, or indirect? One thing to note, Ashley - we have that set up, but you *can't* ll /project, it's not there until you look for it by name, say, ll /project/joesproj, and *then* it's there. mark