Mac OS-X Snow Leopard breaks NIS Automount
I just had to upgrade the Mac server which I had previously set up as a NIS/Automount client, and found that suddenly automount no longer works right. It looks like this is genuinely broken in the new automountd, but of course I can’t tell for sure without source code access.
In an earlier post I detailed how to set up a Leopard server as a NIS client with automount. That procedure required editing a couple files in the /etc/ directory. The upgrade to Snow Leopard replaced those files (auto_master and autofs.conf) with new files, wiping out my changes. It should be easy enough to just put the changes back, right? Wrong.
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