Autofs problem

Hello Everybody,
I'm having some trouble with my Red Hat Linux 9 system. Here is the
scenario.
I'm having NIS, NFS network environment. NIS server is SGI IRIX 6.5. I
have added a new Red Hat Linux 9 system. It is connected through NIS.
Everybody can see this machine & its shares.
I configured Autofs 4.1.2 on this system to access other system's
shares on the network. I can see the shares of all Linux systems, but
I'm unable to see the share for SGI, HP-UX, & Sun. When I try to access
the shares through automount i.e. cd
/hosts/<sgi_machine_name>/<share_name> it gives me No such file or
directory & when I try to mount the share manually it comes up with the
error Permission Denied.
But I can access my new systems share from anywhere, even from SGI &
all the systems. What could be wrong? Please do let me know what things
do I need to do from this system, I guess its a problem with my new
Linux system only.

thanks & regards,

Pranay C. Tembhekar

The muse whacked pranay over the head on 19 Jul 2005 and caused hir to
enscribe <1121752634.749969.20510@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>:
> Hello Everybody, I'm having some trouble with my Red Hat Linux 9
> system. Here is the scenario. I'm having NIS, NFS network
> environment. NIS server is SGI IRIX 6.5. I have added a new Red Hat
> Linux 9 system. It is connected through NIS. Everybody can see this
> machine & its shares. I configured Autofs 4.1.2 on this system to
> access other system's shares on the network. I can see the shares of
> all Linux systems, but I'm unable to see the share for SGI, HP-UX, &
> Sun. When I try to access the shares through automount i.e. cd
> /hosts/<sgi_machine_name>/<share_name> it gives me No such file or
> directory & when I try to mount the share manually it comes up with
> the error Permission Denied. But I can access my new systems share
> from anywhere, even from SGI & all the systems. What could be wrong?
> Please do let me know what things do I need to do from this system,
> I guess its a problem with my new Linux system only.
>
> thanks & regards,
>
> Pranay C. Tembhekar

On the SGI box, are the filesystems you want exported to the Linux
box? Use "/usr/sbin/showmount -e SGIhost" to see what is exported and
to which hosts/networks. If the filesystems (they're called
"filesystems" in the Linux/Unix world, "shares" in the Windows world)
aren't exported to your Linux host, you need to fix that on the
SGI/Sun/HP boxes.
--
Henry Stilmack, CISSP
Email to hps (at) shangri-la (dot) cx
Registered Linux User #324965

Hello Henry,
thanks for the reply. I'm having no trouble with other RHL 9 systems
which is having same Autofs version i.e. 4.1.2. In fact few days back I
added one RHL 9 system to my network with Autofs 4.1.2 & its working
perfectly, the same I've installed on the new system but its not
working, Autofs or mount gives me error for SGI,HP-UX & Sun systems
only.
I'm quiet amazed with this...!!!

thanks,
Pranay