Questions tagged [autofs]
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Mount CIFS share with autofs
I have a system running RHEL 5.5, and I am trying to mount a Windows share on a server using autofs. (Due to the network not being ready upon startup, I do not want to utilize fstab.) I am able to mount the shares manually, but autofs is just not…
Phanto
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Why do some host volumes in Docker containers give the error "too many levels of symbolic links"?
I'm running docker with a host directory mounted:
$ docker run -v /usr/groups/thing -ti imagename /bin/bash
Files in /usr/groups/thing/foo are accessible:
# ls /usr/groups/thing/foo
a b c
But files in /usr/groups/thing/bar are not:
# ls…
Peter Westlake
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How to prevent autofs from mounting over specific directories?
I have a workstation, on which I have a local user account with a local home directory.
I'm also a part of an organization, in which I have a NIS user/home directory.
I would like to setup autofs in order to access some shared NFS directories.
The…
Nir
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How to configure autofs5 timeout on per-filesystem basis?
Because of a show-stopping bug in Debian autofs 4, I just upgraded to autofs5.
It is not honoring the timeout option in my auto.master file:
/var/autofs/removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2
I use this map for thumb drives and so on; I don't…
Norman Ramsey
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What is the correct escaping for autofs mount credentials files?
I have configured autofs on CentOS using /etc/auto.mymount. Something like this:
mymount -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm,credentials=/etc/auto.creds.svc_account ://winserver.domain.local/SharedFolder
This has been working and still does for some mounts.…
Steve
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using chained automount to mount home directory
I have set up two directories mounted with automount (via LDAP):
in the /home directory automount is configured to mount
* -fstype=bind :/network/srv/home/&
in the /network directory one entry
srv …
Andreas Roth
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Mount to NFS export of autofs mount shows empty contents
I use autofs to mount some iso files in folder /mnt/iso:
Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso
Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso
Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso
The autofs is working fine and I can see the contents of iso files:
# ls /mnt/iso/fedora.13/
# ls…
Chau Chee Yang
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Why directories mounted with autofs are not visible in filesystem, but are accessible once full path is provided?
This is my first nfs / autofs configuration, so I probably configured something wrong. When I navigate to directory, which I added to /etc/auto.master I can't see any mount points, but when I issue cd with full path to expected mount point, than it…
s-kaczmarek
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Centos 7 autofs mount doesn't work right after reboot
I've setup autofs on Centos 7. However, it seems like after reboot, it took some time to mount /home/ directory, even when I 'cd' into it. It only succeeds after 3 tries:
[root@localhost ~] cd /home/
-bash: cd: /home/: No such file or…
surfcode
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Keeping user's filesystem persistent across AWS EC2 spot instances
I noticed that, after a new Amazon AWS EC2 spot instance is auto-launched (I have that option turned on), the state of filesystem is not current (represent the last state before previous spot instance is auto-shutdown due to current price going over…
Aleksandr Blekh
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AutoFS wildcard subdirectory
I am trying to automount /home/users//secure for all users using AutoFS.
Naturally I would put down this line as a direct map:
/home/users/*/secure -fstype=nfs4,rw,sec=krb5p jupiter:/home/users/&
However according the documentation:
You…
d_inevitable
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Does an NFS export with sec=krb5 *require* that the parent directory also be exported with sec=krb5?
I copied somebody's NFS server/client setup verbatim and am having trouble making sense of what's going on with it. This is the /etc/exports:
/export *(rw,fsid=0,crossmnt,insecure,async,no_subtree_check,sec=krb5p:krb5i:krb5)
/export/home…
BrianTheLion
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Mount CIFS-share with users Kerberos-Ticket
we want to mount shares through autofs. Nothing special we thought. But: this must be done in some complex active directory circumstances. What we have:
integrated Ubuntu 14.04 workstations on which users can login with their windows credentials.…
cbuchey
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autofs and NFS failover - can autofs remount?
I have this scenario:
2 NFS servers with /usr/share/man as exports (just as example, it can be anything), let say server A and server B (not replicas, just 2 independent servers on the same subnet sharing the same things)
both NFS servers are up…
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How to programmatically umount filesystems mounted by autofs?
I have some RHEL systems where I need to disable autofs.
What I typically do is run a script on each of these hosts that executes something like this:
# /etc/init.d/autofs stop
...
# /sbin/chkconfig autofs off
...
# reboot
But I have a situation…
Red Cricket
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