hi adam
a question... is autofs daemon running ???
rh-6.0# /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs stop -- than start
sometimes ( I donno why )... i manually startup/restart some of
the daemons to get autofs/ssh/etc to run properly...so i restart
it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
have fun
alvin
> *- On 16 Nov, Adam Haeder wrote about "lookup(program): lookup for sharename failed"
> > I'm running automount version 3.1.3 freshly downloaded from
> > ftp.us.kernel.org on a Pentium III system running RH6.0 i386 with stock
> > kernel 2.2.5-15. My /etc/auto.master file looks like this:
> >
> > # $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $
> > # Sample auto.master file
> > # Format of this file:
> > # mountpoint map options
> > # For details of the format look at autofs(8).
> > /nt /etc/auto.nt --timeout 60
> >
> > And my /etc/auto.nt file looks like this:
> > rfs_intranet -fstype=smb,username=adamh,password=XXXXX
> > ://rfs/intranet
> > rfs_logs -fstype=smb,username=adamh,password=XXXXX ://rfs/logs
> >
> > Note: manually mounting these filesystems works; my system can read smb
> > filesystems, I can mount them with no problem.
> >
> > Now if I type 'cd /nt/rfs_intranet' I get:
> > bash: /nt/rfs_intranet: No such file or directory
> >
> > and /var/log/messages says:
> >
> > Nov 16 15:11:12 rfslinux automount[1753]: attempting to mount entry
> > /nt/rfs_intranet
> > Nov 16 15:11:12 rfslinux automount[1825]: lookup(program): lookup for
> > rfs_intranet failed
> >
> > The killer is this worked until I rebooted. I have rewritten the auto.*
> > files, restarted and reloaded the daemon, reinstalled the daemon,
> > everything I can think of. This is actually happening on some other
> > intel systems too, but for some reason those are now working. What
> > lookup is this failing on?
> >
> > TIA
> >
>
> A bug was just discovered by the Samba team in the Linux mount command.
> A delay would result between the call to the mount and the actual mount
> when mounting smbfs shares.
>
> mount -t smb //server/share /mnt
> ls /mnt
> # empty
> sleep 2
> ls /mnt
> # full listing
>
> A new mount has just been released to fix the bug. Perhaps this is the
> problem.
>
> Note: I am just taking a stab a this, someone else more knowledgeable
> please speak up!
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> Brian Servis
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