Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for your quick reply. What do you mean by a nested mount? I
> could not find this term in the autofs documentation, so I guess you
> did not refer to some autofs feature.
>
> Do you mean starting an automount process for each server that I try
> to access?
>
> This would require knowing both server name and share name in advance,
> wouldn't it? Part of what I want to do is "ls /smb/server" and see
> what shares are available. Perhaps even "ls /smb" and see what servers
> are on right now.
>
You can automount other automounters, by -fstype=autofs. Sorry for
being brief, perhaps someone else on this list could be more detailed
about this?
-hpa
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