autofs for idiots
Mike
azmr at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 21 22:37:51 UTC 2007
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Craig White wrote:
> Trying to get my head around plain autofs before I attempt ldap
>
> I can nfs mount via /etc/fstab...
> #srv1:/home/storage/users /home/storage/users nfs user,suid,dev,exec
> 0 0
>
> It's commented out and not presently mounted
>
> why doesn't this work? (comments removed)
>
> # cat auto.master
> /net /etc/auto.net
> /home/storage/users /etc/auto.misc
>
> # cat auto.misc
> cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom
> /home/storage/users -fstype=nfs srv1:/home/storage/users
>
> # service autofs restart
> Stopping automount: [ OK ]
> Starting automount: [ OK ]
>
> # ls -l /home/storage/users
> total 0
>
> it should show all user files
>
> Why doesn't this work? I've been through every man page, etc.
>
> Craig
>
I'm by no means an expert but I use syntax like this for auto mounting
CIFS shares.
in /etc/auto.master:
/home/storage /etc/auto.misc
then in /etc/auto.misc:
/users -fstype=nfs srv1:/home/storage/users
-- Mike
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