autofs for idiots
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Nov 21 22:48:43 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:43 -0700, Mike wrote:
>
> 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
----
it creates a '0' size directory which of course is unusable...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-11-21 15:46 users
;-(
This is Fedora 8...does that matter?
Craig
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