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Monitoring NFS mounts for existence

The issue we are seeing is that some of our NFS mounted directories are disappearing. Literally just disappearing. They continue to exist at the server end. At the client (CentOS 7.4, using el-repo's kernel-ml at version 4.16.6,…
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Why does sssd query for all automountkeys when looking for a specific one?

I am attempting to convert autofs from using ldap maps to using sss maps. However, it appears that sssd wishes to query for all automount keys rather than just the specific one it needs. This is causing the query to run afoul of the ldap server's…
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Ubuntu/OpenLDAP/Autofs : local user instead of LDAP user

I mount home directories for my LDAP users trhough autofs. It works like a charm except with one computer. On LDAP logs, I have : ldap rpc.mountd[975]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.0.XX:845 for /export/home/adminlocal (/export/home) ldap…
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Autofs + Kerberos + NFSv4 works on RHEL, but not Ubuntu

We have our /home directories stored on a NetApp SVN, and are automounting them as NFSv4 with Kerberos. This seems to work flawlessly on RHEL7.x, however it will not work in Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 no matter what we try. Both RHEL and Ubuntu are using…
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How to autocreate home directories in automounted NFS directory?

I have a NFS server at nfs.example.com:/users. I have a normal server at client.example.com. When I do su - user, I want it not only to automount /users/user, but I also want to create /users/user if it is not created already. If I allows autofs to…
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Failing to prevent autofs from mounting over local home directory

In a previous question, the original poster asks how to prevent autofs to mount over a local home directory: How to prevent autofs from mounting over specific directories? I am facing a similar situation, where I would have a local home directory on…
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any autofs experts? how to get autofs and webdav to work together?

First off let me say that this is a repost of a question I posted in AskUbuntu. If this is against the rules then please remove this. Honestly, after further consideration of the topic I realized that since autofs works basically the same across…
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Automatically create home directory on NFS after LDAP login

My current situation is that I can successfully authenticate using ldap and pam, I also succeeded to use pam_mkdir to autocreate home directories in the /home filesystem. What now I'm trying to achieve is to autocreate the same home directories…
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How do I mount a home catalog using cifs and autofs with Active Directory authentication on CentOS7?

I'm trying to integrate a CentOS7 client with Active Directy authentication and automatically mounting the user homedirs with cifs. I would prefer to use autofs, but I've so far been unable to make cifs mount work with sec=krb5 setting. It always…
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Autofs with multiple path parameters

autofs has a auto.master configuration file that assignes maps files to paths, and in these maps files we can define how to mount subdirectories of the paths from auto.master. These subdirectories can be explicit or we can use * which becomes a…
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linux auto.nfs config gets updated periodically

I' have little experience with linux autofs. I can't help but keep noticing that files in /etc/ timestamps change periodically. From documentation, my understanding is fstab is supposedly fixed(configured once). Is it normal? Sometimes programs…
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ldap_add: Invalid DN syntax (34)

I am configuring my LDAP for roaming profiles using autofs, but when I run this command ldapadd -x -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" -W -f automount.ldif I get this error message ldap_add: Invalid DN syntax (34) additional info: invalid DN I have…
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NFS with autofs: mounting /run/lock gives permissions error

I'm running Ubuntu server 14.04 as an NFS server to another 14.04 machine (one's a mail server the other a web server where I'd like to run the MailMan admin GUI). I'm using autofs to mount the exports on the other side: In my /etc/exports I have…
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Correct use of autofs "hosts" map option?

Using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I have an NFS server set up to export some directories. The client machine (also Ubuntu 14.04) is using autofs with the following in /etc/auto.master: /net -hosts suid But if I ls /net it shows it's empty. However, if I…
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Is there a way to make a browse-able automount directory without mounting the subdirectories?

Question: Is there a way to make a browse-able automount directory without mounting the subdirectories? Background: I am looking at moving from statically mounted NFS shares, to dynamically mounted NFS shares. The shares are hosted on OS X and…
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