autofs for idiots

[Mike]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Mike wrote:

> 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
>

D'oh!

in /etc/auto.misc that should be:
users        -fstype=nfs srv1:/home/storage/users

-- Mike