Questions tagged [autofs]
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Where to define sshfs options when using autofs?
I have used the following guide:
http://www.tjansson.dk/?p=84
to mount an SSHFS using Automount. The implementation works great. However, I need to add an option to SSHFS as defined…

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Is AutoFS necessary?
In Solaris 11, if I have a single system (NAS), with no other users other than myself, can I delete autofs mappings?
To me it seems confusing to have things in two separate folders (/export/home & /home). But what I really want to know if it will…

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Restrict user to mount with autofs
Redhat 4/5
I'm trying to centralize home directories for my users. We're not at the point to implement ldap just yet, but let's say I want all my users' home directories mounted off an NFS server. I got it all working, autofs that is, but I have one…

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Cached uid on autofs filesystems
We have some issues with homedirs on our NFS server (SUN S7110). When we change the owner of a file it seems the old uid is cached. The ls -l still shows the old uid. On other systems which mount the same homedir the has the new uid. Is there a…
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How do i concatenate one map and one direct entry in automount?
i have this auto.master:
/data yp:my_nis_map
on a particular linux workstation, i like to add a /data/special that is not present in my_nis_map.
/data yp:my_nis_map
/data/special filer:/path/to/special
but this fails ?
How can i…

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How to change location of NFS share without changing autofs configuration
On our data server we currently share a location on an HDD raid /volume1/folder with multiple linux servers via autofs. Every server mounts this location to /data/shared/folder. We now updated to an SSD raid on the same machine and I would like to…

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Not automount volume after GlusterFS client booting up by autofs
I have configured GlusterFS between 3 rocky servers and mounting the gluster volume under /srv/gluster/vol01 directory. I had to install glusterfs-client in the 4th machine. My primary objective was to get the 3 servers replicated. Currently I am…
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What is the "auto.smb" equivalent for systemd automount?
I'm looking to migrate to systemd's automount from autofs.
One neat thing about autofs was that with the help of auto.smb, it was possible for autofs to automount on demand all the shares on a server just by creating a credentials file for that…

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Need help setup mount seaweedfs with autofs or systemd automount
I want to mount on demand using autofs or systemd automount. But I can't get neither of it to work.
With autofs. I have this file
cat /etc/auto.weed
/mnt/data -fstype=weed,allow_other,rw,filer=10.104.0.5,filer.path=/data
I try to change…

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Using public / private key in SSH authentification through LDAP and NFS mounted home folder
I would like to use a public / private key to connect to a server which using LDAP for authentification. The issue is that the home folder is only mounted after login via AutoFS. How can I store the public key in the LDAP server for a specific user…

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Add additional option on all automounts brought in from +auto.master
I am looking for a way to enable cachefilesd across all automounts that we inherit via +master.conf. To do this, I need to be able to add -o fsc to the mount options.
Is there a way to override the NFS options in the maps to add an additional…

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Use autofs on host with Docker
I'm mounting CIFS share on a host to /mnt/nas using autofs.
On the host I'm running a PHP Docker container.
I can mount the /mnt/nas to this container using volumes inside a docker-compose.yml.
The problem is that it seems that the PHP process…

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auto mount several SD cards (one after the other) to the same directory
I have several SD cards with contents of type cont_A that I would like to mount to /mnt/cont_A if one of them is plugged into the computer.
I have as well several SD cards with contents of type cont_B that I would like to mount to /mnt/cont_B if one…

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NFS mount on housing user home shares not mounting on Ubuntu 16.04
The issue I am trying to resolve is a bit of a head-scratcher. I say that because the issue is consistently inconsistent and not happening on all of the Ubuntu 16.04 VMs that are hosted in our ESXi environment. I have an NSF export on my FluidFS nas…

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systemd based automount never umounts when idle
The setup (not autofs, but systemd based automount):
# grep automount /etc/fstab
1.2.3.4:/vol/homedirs /home/roaming nfs x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=30
and:
# systemctl daemon-reload
on SLES12.3.
This works great! If a user logs in,…

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