i don't exactly know what you mean with automount - but i guess that the clients get their filesystem over nfs. if both servers (master & slave nis server) connected to a shared storage environment, clients could also mount their filesytems from the slave server in a failover situation. probably DRBD is something for you (http://www.drbd.org) - raid1 mirrored network block device. andi Am Samstag, den 06.11.2004, 22:14 +0100 schrieb Luca Ferrari: > Hi, > i've got a NIS master server that provides also home directory sharing thru > automount. Now I'm planning to build a NIS slave server, but I'm not sure > about how to use the slave server as a backup one also for automount. Did > anybody do something like this? > > Luca - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html