Re: [autofs] making the mountpoints visible all the time

[Alexander Macdonald]

I'm using kernel 2.6.0-test9, i could only see patches for 2.4 so i 
guess this has the latest autofs in it allready right? I've also 
upgraded my daemon to autofs-4.1.0-beta3. I then tried running this:-

automount -g /mnt/network/samba/computerA file /etc/autofs/samba

in the file /etc/autofs/samba I have this:-

download    -fstype=smbfs,username=guest,password=none ://computera/Download
upload        -fstype=smbfs,username=guest,rw,password=none 
://computera/Upload

it works fine but it still doesnt do the "ghosting"



Rigler, Steve wrote:

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of 
Alexander Macdonald
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 6:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [autofs] making the mountpoints visible all the time

Ian Kent wrote:

   

The autofs4-2.4 module build kit or the patches contained in 
     

it or the
   

patches contained in autofs-4.1.0-beta3 can give you this 
     

for some of the
   

maps. NIS, LDAP and file maps work at the moment.

I's in the expected place on kernel.org.

     

not sure what you mean by file maps, but I'm trying to mount 
samba and 
nfs shares so i guess I'm out of luck...

   

In order to view the mountpoints before they are mounted you need
to have the newer version of the kernel module which is available
at kernel.org.
The maps aren't really specific to the type of filesystem you are
trying to mount.  You can get your maps from a local file, NIS, LDAP,
etc.  They can contain information to mount smb, nfs, or even local
filesystems.
If you install the newer kernel module, you can make your mountpoints
visisible with the ghosting option.  One way to enable this is to 
set it in your /etc/auto.master like:

/somedir	file:/etc/auto.somedir	-g

Or you can add the "-g" to the "daemonoptions" variable line in 
/etc/init.d/autofs.

-Steve

 



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