autofs for idiots

[John Summerfield]

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.

Read /var/log/messages hither and thither.



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