autofs for idiots

[Mike]

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