Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
>
> Hi, I have just subscribed to this list but I post straight away since
> I am in a bit of a hurry - and I was unable to find a mail archive to
> get up to speed on the list. Sorry if I am an annoyance :).
>
> I have to find a medium-sized project (that is, half time work for a
> couple of months) to do in University. I want to do something that I
> can benefit from personally, and so I thought about an automounter for
> Windows shares. (I live in a dorm with lots of Windows machines
> sharing things through SMB).
>
> As far as I can tell, autofs does support smbmount, but only on a per
> share basis; you need to specify a mount rule for each share on each
> server. What I want is dynamic browsing capabilities like Windows
> offers.
>
> I think the main problem is that the virtual file system needs two
> levels, the first with the servers and the second with shares on each
> server.
>
> Is autofs able to do this, perhaps with a few scripts hacked together?
> Would it be hard to expand autofs in this direction? Is there some
> reason it cannot be done? If it is not currently possible in autofs,
> would one be able to do it with amd (I understand that amd is a bit
> more powerful, at the cost of being vastly more complex)?
>
It should be doable by using an autofs nested mount on the first level
and a program mount on the second level. Shouldn't be too difficult.
-hpa
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