Hello,
I'm new to autofs. I have a cluster and would like to mount a
directory served up by a samba server on all of the clients on the
cluster. However it doesn't seem to work yet. I'm using the usual
debian/woody packages for autofs, smbfs. Any help greatly appreciated.
The samba server works with:
sgenseme@pc974:/$ smbmount "\\\\paris\\sgenseme" /home/sgenseme/paris
but autofs doesn't work with this line in my auto.paris file:
sgenseme -fstype=smbfs,login=sgenseme,passwd=xxxx paris:sgenseme
Am I missing something stupid? I couldn't figure out what the format of
the above line is supposed to be...
Here are the rest of the gory details:
First I tested the samba server:
sgenseme@pc3483:~$ /usr/bin/smbclient -L paris
added interface ip=134.181.113.34 bcast=134.181.119.255
nmask=255.255.248.0
Password:
Domain=[BCIS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.3]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba
Server on Paris)
110Russell-te Printer laser
110Russell-ps Printer lp2
lp3 Printer
HP-5000N-ps Printer remote-hplj
sgenseme Disk Network file storage
Server Comment
--------- -------
DENMARK Information & Library
Services
PARIS Samba Server on Paris
Workgroup Master
--------- -------
BCIS DENMARK
sgenseme@pc974:/$ mkdir /home/sgenseme/paris
sgenseme@pc974:/$ smbmount "\\\\paris\\sgenseme" /home/sgenseme/paris
Password:
sgenseme@pc974:/$ ls /home/sgenseme/paris
#pico03895# announce.txt info.html
project3_1.txt
AdobeFnt.lst astroprop.txt key.sah
public_html.....
Worked fine. But paris is unreliable so I want to use autofs. I
already have autofs working with nfs with another server, "pc3843", which
serves up home, so autofs works and smbfs works but not together.
pc974:/# /etc/init.d/autofs start
Starting automounter: /var/autofs/misc.
pc974:/var/autofs/misc/paris# ls
pc974:/var/autofs/misc/paris# cd sgenseme
bash: cd: sgenseme: No such file or directory << problem?
pc974:/var/autofs/misc/paris# ls
pc974:/var/autofs/misc# ls
home paris
pc974:/var/autofs/misc# mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
automount(pid11271) on /var/autofs/misc type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=11271,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
pc3483:/home on /var/autofs/misc/home type nfs (rw,addr=134.181.113.34)
automount(pid11285) on /var/autofs/misc/paris type autofs
(rw,fd=5,pgrp=11271,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
Here are the autofs files: (P.S., can I use nis with smbfs to
simplify some of this when I have a lot of users?)
pc974:/# cat /etc/auto.master
# $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(5).
/var/autofs/misc /etc/auto.misc
pc974:/# cat /etc/auto.misc
# $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage
cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc
floppy -fstype=auto,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/fd0
home -fstype=nfs,rw pc3483:/home
paris -fstype=autofs file:/etc/auto.paris
pc974:/# cat /etc/auto.paris
# /etc/auto.paris - added 3/2/02 by SDG
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage
#
# Add a line for each user who needs access to their paris home directory:
sgenseme -fstype=smbfs,login=sgenseme,passwd=xxxx paris:sgenseme
Steve Gensemer
Department of Physics and Astronomy
327 Carnegie Science Bldg
Bates College
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
