Questions tagged [autofs]
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Password prompt when accessing samba share through autofs
We have a file server on Ubuntu Server 16.04 using Samba which uses an external LDAP server for authentication. Additionally, the LDAP server has an automount definition for the file server's Samba shares (with automountInformation:…

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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.…

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LDAP authentication, pam_mkhomedir and NFS automounted homes
We currently have a setup (running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) with mixed LDAP/NIS authentication and automounted home directories from several servers (with the auto.home map distributed over NIS). Everything runs smoothly as long as the user logging in…

Ale
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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…

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How to set permissions for a CIFS mount with autofs?
I've set up a CIFS mount on my CentOS 6.4 server with autofs :
File /etc/auto.mnt :
Photos -fstype=cifs,perm,rw,uid=505,forceuid,gid=505,forcegid,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770,credentials=/root/credentials.txt ://adsrv01/Photos
What a ls command…

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Autofs BROWSE Mode in CentOS\RHEL
I have multiple server mounting their $HOME from a file server.
On the clients I have set in /etc/sysconfig/autofs
BROWSE_MODE="no"
The client also mount directories from other files servers to /shared and /cifs
I was wondering if there is a way…

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Install packages that create home directory on automounted Linux servers
When installing certain packages, for example gitlab-runner, a directory needs to be created in /home/. If the home directories are automounted on NFS, then installation will fail.
$ sudo apt install -y [package]
Setting up gitlab-runner (12.1.0)…

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nfs mounts over wrong subnet when another mount happens first
I have a weird issue with an NFS server and clients that are connected over two separate private subnets.
The private subnets are 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0 and 10.2.0.0/255.255.0.0 addressed as .local and .qlogic respectively (DNS is served by 10.1.1.1,…

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autofs can't mount a remote dir with sshfs on the host with deprecated key algorithm
Here is my configuration:
/etc/auto.master
/mnt/10 /etc/auto.10 uid=0,gid=0,--ghost
/etc/auto.10
root -fstype=fuse,allow_other,follow_symlinks,ssh_command=/etc/ssh/sshpass.10.sh :sshfs\#root@10.28.0.10\:/root
Because the remote device is…

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Linux - Active Directory - autofs service
We integrated our Linux environment into our AD 2016. Now an additional request is to add autofs service, via AD, to provide to the admins (Linux-admins, DB-admins, Application-admins) their personal /home . We have to administer roughly 600 VMs and…
Mark
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AutoFS mount multiple CIFS Shares to same directory
As long as I had only one mount everything was fine.
file: /etc/auto.master
/mnt /etc/auto.srv1_share1
file: /etc/auto.srv1_share1
sh1 -fstype=cifs,rw,user=jdoe,domain=srv1,noexec,password=xxx ://srv1/share1
which resulted in //srv1/share1 mounted…

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How to mount a smb drive with different credentials (user name and password) on Linux?
Ok, I have here a laptop on which runs Linux (CentOS 7). The laptop will be used from different user's (which have all different login's on the laptop). We have in our network a Samba server. All users which have a login on the laptop have also…

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Autofs mount problems
I need a suggestion how to configure autofs to mount a windows share automatically to CentOS.
I can successfully mount the share, but I can't seem to enter parameters into auto.master corectly.
Could someone look at my mount command (which executes…

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nfs autofs automount of exported filesystems is empty on nfs server
I am having issues with empty nfs automounts on the nfs server itself.
I'm running RHEL5.7 64bit exporting 4 directories as follows:
/export/site/server13 *(fsid=0,rw,sync,crossmnt)
/export/site/server13/u *(rw,sync)
/export/site/server13/unix…

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