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Autofs and Samba not mounting on RHEL 7

I have a samba share entitles "scrolls" set up. Listing the samba share works just fine: [root@rhel7-client ~]# smbclient -L 192.168.1.2 Enter root's password: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.1] Sharename Type …
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autofs nfs mount Redhat share from Ubuntu client - showmount reports "RPC: Program/version mismatch"

Trying to use autofs to mount an export on my Fedora 11 workstation (xulu) from a laptop running Ubuntu 9 - but showmount runs into an annoying error - sbeam@clammy$ sudo showmount -e xulu rpc mount export: RPC: Program/version mismatch; low version…
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Mounting CIFS on 60 RHEL5 computers, fstab or autofs

I need to mount a Windows share on a large number of computers (nodes in a supercomputer). The share will rarely be used, but it should be there when needed. It seems like a good case for some type of automounter. Unfortunately, I'm getting…
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How to prevent autofs from stalling system when nfs share is not available

This problem has been there in OpenSuSE 10.1-12.3 and (K)Ubuntu 10.04-14.04 and I'd like to get rid of it now: We have a common software directory on an NFS share. Client-side autofs setup # /etc/auto.master /- /etc/auto.direct --ghost --timeout…
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LDAP + NFS + automount home directories permissions issue

When an LDAP user logs into the system they have incorrect permissions to their home directory. LDAP and NFS services exist on the same server. The directory shows the correct ownership / permissions: drwx------. 4 ldaptest ldaptest 4096 Jun 9 …
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Static NFS mounts vs autofs direct map mounts

We are in the process of re-designing our NFS service and are at a point where we can choose either to mount our NFS shares statically from /etc/fstab at boot or as autofs direct maps. In our new design, we have only 2 mounts and the mounts will be…
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LDAP/NFS/PAM/AutoFS : mkhomedir PAM plugin failling

I have a working setup with OpenLDAP (authentication and NFS mount options), NFS server, AutoFS (to mount the NFS homedir) and required PAM plugins. Everything works fine except the mkhomedir PAM plugin, which does not work properly since the home…
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Automounting home directories using LDAP in ArchLinux

I have managed to set up an OpenLDAP server that runs ArchLinux. I can now log in from the client (also ArchLinux) using the LDAP users. Now i want to mount the home directories over the network... I assume I need autofs and NFS for this, but all…
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Randomly Disappearing Mount Point

I have 3 servers all with the same set of mount points. On one server loses it connection to the mount fairly often and the two other servers it never does. I cannot reconnect until I reboot the server. I have tried using both a static mount and…
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Autofs redundant failover to local mountpoint

We are using autofs to mount an NFS partition from a local server. We have a redundant server and we are failing over to this using the method mentioned in that autofs(5) man page. This is all working fine. What we would like to do is add a third…
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Automount directories only on certain clients via NIS and NFS

Is it possible to serve certain files via NIS only to a group of clients and not to all of them? It's probably a very easy task but I'm searching for a while now and don't seem to find an answer. I'm also pretty new to the subject and not really…
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Why files disappear when using autofs

I have a disk mount as /local in the centos 5.3. Under /local/foldera/folderb/ I have lots of folders like： drwxrwxrwx root root 4096 DEC 10 10:40 Platformxx Then I've build another server and on ther server many Platform like on the above.I want…
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autofs mounts entire direct map

I've got a auto.master with an indirect map and a direct map. /home /etc/auto.home --timeout 60 /- /etc/auto.foo --timeout 60 auto.home: jwells -rw,noquota,intr server:/vol/home/jwells ... auto.foo: /foo/path/one…
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AutoFS with NIS and cannot mount share owned by root

I am using Ubuntu 12.04, and am trying to use NIS with AutoFS to mount the NFS shares I have access to for projects. I can mount my networked home directory, which is used for the remote terminals, but this is owned by my user. Project directories I…
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Using automount on RHEL5, why are variables in the auto.master never expanded?

I'm migrating from NISPLUS to LDAP (openldap) and from RHEL4 to RHEL5. The LDAP server is running on RHEL5u4 as are the clients. On RHEL5 variable expansion in auto.master never works, whether in files or LDAP. NISPLUS/RHEL4 (works) I used to have a…
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