I know for certain that some of the automount problems in the
Solaris and Irix clients have been addressed in PTF5 and PTF6.
Don't know if HP-UX is also affected, but you may try to download
a newer version of the client and test it on a select number of
machines.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks Feature Animation
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Michael J. Rensing wrote:

>Feel free to direct me to a FAQ if it has answers; I just can't find
>any!
>
>I'm running the ADSM client 3.1.0.3 on HP-UX 10.20.
>I've RTFM, and it appears that there is no way to do a client backup
>of automounted nfd directories. Can anyone confirm this, or does
>anyone know how to make it work? I'm not having any success, and this
>is urgent (of course ;-) ) because we haven't had a successful backup
>since converting to an automount system three weeks ago.
>
>TIA
>
>                                  Michael
>
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