Questions tagged [autofs]
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Disabling IP caching in samba or dealing with dynamic IP
We want to mount external storage that has been provided to us. We use something like the following in our /etc/fstab file on Ubuntu 18.04.
//external/storage /mounting/point cifs…

Bram Vanroy
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Autofs mounted /home/ not included in backup
I have autofs mounted shared /home directories setup on server and it is working perfectly, when i need dir, it is mounted automaticly, when i dont, it is not present. But now i am working on backup scripts and noticed something weird.
In every…

Nanoni
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autofs mounting without passwords
I have an existing autofs Centos-Centos mount. I forgot how I set those up without having to require a password.
# /etc/auto.folder
folder -fstype=nfs,rw 10.10.10.1:/folder
Now, I'm trying to setup another mount but I get access denied.
#…

Ianthe the Duke of Nukem
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Should I use mount or autofs?
I have NFS shares on a file server that I would like to mount on a web server.
For example, a music streamer web application (subsonic) would be hosted on the web server and stream music files located on the file server via NFS shares.
1) Would it…

user200651
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How to mount more than /home?
I have the following in my /etc/auto.master
/project yp auto.project -soft,intr,nosuid
/home yp auto.home -soft,intr,nosuid
/nobackup yp auto.nobackup -soft,intr,nosuid
When a user logs in, his home directory is mounted using…

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