[ale] AutoFS

[Brandon Colbert]

OH I got it working now. Ok that was stupid! LOL. When I cd to  /misc I
didn't see anything, but as soon as I: cd /misc/data it worked.


Thanks,

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:13 AM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Brandon Colbert <colbert.brandon at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I have searched all over the net about setting up AutoFS. I am able to
>> mount the share: manually or through /etc/fstab.  Can someone give me a
>> hand?
>>
>> My config:
>> Server: NFS share. /home/data    192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0(ro)<http://192.168.100.0/255.255.255.0%28ro%29>
>>
>> Client:
>> auto.master:
>> /misc    /etc/auto.misc
>> /net    -hosts
>> +auto.master
>>
>> auto.misc:
>> data         -fstype=nfs,ro        server.net:/home/data
>
>
> Brandon,
>
> Your auto.misc looks right, but I'd probably change it to:
> data          -ro,soft,intr              server.net:/home/data
>
> The soft and intr options make nfs a little nicer on the client, like it
> can interrupt a process if the nfs server is having issues.
>
> But you didn't tell us the problem.  I'm guessing that you're expecting
> /misc/data to appear after you restart autofs?  That's not going to happen
> with you setup because you're running autofs as a mount resource on demand,
> so it won't be until you actually try to use the contents of /misc/data that
> you'll see the mount point created and data available to your system, then,
> if you're idle for a while and haven't used the data, the directory will be
> umounted and the mountpoint will go away until you try to access it again.
>  Try running ls /misc/data to see if autofs is working, if you get stuff
> back, working, if you get "no such file or directory", not working.
>
> If you want autofs to always show you the mounted resource, you want to
> create a "direct map" with your configuration.
>
> -Scott
>
>
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