Ok, I’ve searched for awhile and I’m not finding what I need to make this happen.
We have an openldap server runing on a linux machine. I am trying to get the apple leopard client to understand the automount maps we have in the ldap tree on the server. I have successfully configured the apple client’s user and group settings simply by appending ou=People, to the searchbases of the User and People records and appending ou=Group, for the Groups record on the client. The automount part is much trickier apparently. Like sun apple uses the auto_foo syntax with autofs but unlike sun I can’t figure out what the equivalent command to ldapclient is on the apple. Basically we slurped over the NIS maps from nis into ldap so now at the root level of the ldap structure on the ldap server we have:

# LDIF Export for: dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
# Generated by phpLDAPadmin ( http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ ) on December 6, 2007 12:33 pm
# Server: Master LDAP Server (ldap.foo.bar.bla)
# Search Scope: one
# Search Filter: (objectClass=*)
# Total Entries: 8

dn: nisMapName=auto.foo,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
objectClass: top
objectClass: nisMap
nisMapName: auto.foo

dn: nisMapName=auto.master,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
objectClass: top
objectClass: nisMap
nisMapName: auto.master

dn: nisMapName=auto.mirror,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
objectClass: top
objectClass: nisMap
nisMapName: auto.mirror

dn: nisMapName=auto.notbackedup,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
objectClass: top
objectClass: nisMap
nisMapName: auto.notbackedup

dn: nisMapName=auto.projects,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
objectClass: top
objectClass: nisMap
nisMapName: auto.projects

dn: nisMapName=auto.test,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
objectClass: top
objectClass: nisMap
nisMapName: auto.test

dn: ou=Group,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
ou: Group
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit

dn: ou=People,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
ou: People
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit

below is the contents of the local ldap config file that the ldapclient command generates on Solaris machines:

# Do not edit this file manually; your changes will be lost.Please use ldapclient (1M) instead.
#
NS_LDAP_FILE_VERSION= 2.0
NS_LDAP_SERVERS= ldap.foo.bar.bla, ldap2.foo.bar.bla
NS_LDAP_SEARCH_BASEDN= dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
NS_LDAP_CACHETTL= 0
NS_LDAP_SERVICE_SEARCH_DESC= auto_foo:nisMapName=auto.foo,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
NS_LDAP_SERVICE_SEARCH_DESC= auto_projects:nisMapName=auto.projects,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
NS_LDAP_SERVICE_SEARCH_DESC= auto_test:nisMapName=auto.test,dc=foo,dc=ucsc,dc=edu
NS_LDAP_SERVICE_SEARCH_DESC= auto_notbackedup:nisMapName=auto.notbackedup,dc=foo,dc=ucsc,dc=edu
NS_LDAP_SERVICE_SEARCH_DESC= auto_mirror:nisMapName=auto.mirror,dc=foo,dc=bar,dc=bla
NS_LDAP_ATTRIBUTEMAP= automount:automountInformation=nisMapEntry
NS_LDAP_ATTRIBUTEMAP= automount:automountKey=cn
NS_LDAP_ATTRIBUTEMAP= automount:automountMapName=nisMapName
NS_LDAP_OBJECTCLASSMAP= automount:automount=nisObject
NS_LDAP_OBJECTCLASSMAP= automount:automountMap=nisMap
NS_LDAP_SERVICE_AUTH_METHOD= pam_ldap:tls:simple
NS_LDAP_SERVICE_AUTH_METHOD= passwd-cmd:tls:simple

Basically I would like to set +auto_master in the auto_master in /etc and with the correct translations like the suns have, just get my mount info from the ldap server as needed.
Any info would be greatly appreciated
-xom