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Autofs with ghost option not showing wildcard mounts

I have this in my autofs map: * -rw server:/share/& I also have --ghost option enabled in my /etc/auto.master. According to the manual and to all resources and examples I found on the web this should work. However, in my case: ls /share/…
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Can I force NFS automounts to use NFSv3?

I have a linux server that is exporting NFSv4 as well as NFSv3. I have a Fedora14 client that is defaulting to NFSv4 when automounting NFS shares off of the linux server, and it seems to be causing some problems. All my other linux clients on the…
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how to get autofs to mount a partition as rw?

I got autofs to mount a partition. It works fine, except I can't get it to mount with write privileges to regular users. I tried with this in auto.master: /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 and this in auto.misc: data -fstype=vfat,rw …
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NFSv4 with autofs automount hanging only for some users

I have a DRBD partition mounted get auto-mounted using Linux-HA, then it sets up a bind and shares the directory via NFS. This shares out a directory for user home directories. Some users work fine, most do not and it sits there hanging on mounting…
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autofs mac os x afp not loading as correct user?

I am way out of my depth, and I am trying to get all of my nodes on a cluster to mount a drive on my head node. I am using OS X 10.6. I've got /etc/auto_master and /etc/auto_afp configured according to Apple's "Autofs: Automatically Mounting…
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Mount an additional Xserve volume with autofs on Linux

A few years ago I setup autofs on a RH Linux box to mount volumes from four XServes. I need to add a couple new volumes from these same Xserves so that I can access files from the Linux box. I've completely forgotten how to do this and haven't been…
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How should we automount home directories stored at different NFS paths at /home/$USER?

We're currently transitioning to storing all of our organization's user information in Red Hat IDM (FreeIPA). We have several thousand users, and mount user home directories over NFS from a NetApp filer. On the filer, home directories are stored in…
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Modify folder permissions of parent directory that were automatically created by autofs

I am currently following this guide to setup CentOS 8 to automount samba shares. I am aware that we can change autofs auto mounted folders permissions using uid=...,gid=...,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770 and it does technically work... Here's my…
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Using LDAP: how to log in with SSH, mounting the Samba home directory with autofs?

I have spent some time setting up LDAP-based authentication in my MacOS, iOS and Linux network, taking account of the special quirks of MacOS and Synology (my NAS). SSH login (SSH keys etc.) works and Samba share mounts work. It was all quite…
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autofs is not mounting sshfs point while sshfs and mount -t fuse does

folks. Recently I came over autofs and now trying to make my everyday life easier. I have a remote server that I use as I file share with a help of sshfs for years. So, I found some tutorials how to automate sshfs with a help of autofs. Here are my…
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autofs with samba, sssd, openldap, kerberos

I want to mount a samba share with autofs. srv.xxxxxxx.net is the samba server (proxmox container, Debian 10) ldap2.xxxxxxx.net is the openldap (proxmox container, Debian 10) gui.xxxxxxx.net is the client (proxmox vm, Ubuntu 18.04) Samba runs in…
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Ubuntu cannot mount CIFS share from autofs and KRB5

I've inherited an Ubuntu 14 Fileserver... VERSION="14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr" Client machine is a fresh install of Ubuntu 18 VERSION="18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
autofs/bionic-updates,now 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.1 amd64 [installed]
We are in a…
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Mount multiple NFS-Servers

I have multiple nfs-servers running in my network. What is the best way to mount all servers on my ubuntu? While researching I came across multiple possible solutions: autofs, fstab, automount. Any best practices worth sharing?
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"Too many levels of symbolic links" in NFS via automount resolved by restarting Docker

This is bizarre and while I have a workaround, I'd prefer a permanent fix. I have a small group of GPU machines running Ubuntu 14.04 which I am using as workers for a cloud service that's effected via Docker images. I have nvidia-docker installed on…
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CentOS 7 nfs server makes autofs nfs clients running macOS 10.11+ crash

I'm trying to figure out why macOS clients reboots when accessing files on a NFS home directory automounted from a CentOS 7 server. The exact same configuration works very well with CentOS 6 NFS servers. On the CentOS 7 server : # cat…
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