automounter (amd) best practices question

[Tom Parquette]

I have amd running, after I figured out I had been misunderstanding the 
man pages, but I have some questions.  I'm looking for some best 
practices insights.  I looked for a howto and searched the questions 
archive but I didn't turn up what I was looking for.

1) I would like to remove /usr/src, /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles 
from some of my machine's fstab.  I do the make buildworld, make 
buildkernel on one machine then run the make installworld, installkernel 
on the target machines.  I looked at make.conf and some of the man pages 
but nothing jumped out at me.  I'm trying to figure out how to prefix 
/host/Atlas onto the directory names so the installs will work.  e.g. 
/usr/src becomes /host/Atlas/usr/src.

2) In this example, I want to keep the home directories on a server 
instead of having them on a workstation.  My first thought was to change 
the home directory for the user on the workstation from /home/Tom to 
/host/Atlas/home/Tom.  Is there a better way to do this?

3) If I ever decide to work in NIS, question #2 comes up again in the 
NIS environment.  Normally I don't sign on to the server from the 
attached keyboard but it does happen occasionally.  If I set up the home 
directory in NIS as /host/Atlas/home/Tom, then signon to the server 
locally (in other words, I do not SSH into it) is this a problem?  I 
would think worst case it will not work.  Best case I may have some 
overhead.

I would appreciate any insights you can provide.
Thanks.