Hi, This is my first post so please bear with me while I try to report this issues.
I'm using kernel 2.6.7 with no patches.. Here are my relavent config files: cat /etc/autofs/auto.master # $Id: auto.master,v 1.1 2000/08/08 17:53:33 achim Exp $ # Sample auto.master file # Format of this file: # mountpoint map options # For details of the format look at autofs(8). /misc /etc/autofs/auto.misc --timeout=20 cat /etc/autofs/auto.misc # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 2002/10/27 05:21:15 bcowan 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 #boot -fstype=ext2 :/dev/hda1 #cd -fstype=iso9660,ro :/dev/cdrom #floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0 beast -fstype=smbfs,uid=wheel,username=mick,password="" ://beast/tmp beast-cd-dvd -fstype=smbfs,uid=wheel,username=mick,password="" ://beast/dvd-cdrw beast-cd -fstype=smbfs,uid=wheel,username=mick,password="" ://MICKPERLAPTOP/dvd-cdrw I have some confusion about whether one is meant to use the ip hostname of a device, or the SMB hostname from 'smbtree' so I'm testing with both.. automount is running: ps aux | grep auto root 5288 0.0 0.2 1556 664 ? S 22:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 20 /misc file /etc/autofs/auto.misc I have tried with both having autofs create /misc or me 'mkdir /misc' ing the dir. Both seem to have the same effect, so I'm assuming most of the documentation floating around is wrong, as what I have read says you must create the dir for autofs to mount to. However, nothing mounts (well, it does, but not without my intervention, as you'll read later)... freevo / # ls -lah /misc total 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 1 22:28 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K Sep 1 22:27 .. freevo / # The only way I can find to mount it is to try to mkdir one of the dirs.. (I stumbles onto this..) freevo / # mkdir /misc/beast mkdir: cannot create directory `/misc/beast': File exists freevo / # ls -lah /misc total 8.0K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 1 22:39 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4.0K Sep 1 22:27 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 65535 root 4.0K Sep 1 22:39 beast freevo / # And now the dir is mounted and accessable.. Please, has anyone experienced anythign like this?? Any ideas what is going wrong? Mick One more thing... Whever I am 'in' (ssh) the /misc dir and doing systemsy things.. I get funny /var/log/messages in relations to automount. I've executed the majority of the commands from within /misc, they worked as expected but for some reason automount logs the following (NB: These are the ONLY logs for automount in /var/log/messages..): Sep 1 21:42:34 freevo automount[12926]: failed to mount /misc/dmesg Sep 1 21:44:58 freevo automount[13042]: failed to mount /misc/dmesg Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13534]: failed to mount /misc/smbcacls Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13535]: failed to mount /misc/smbcontrol Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13536]: failed to mount /misc/smbd Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13537]: failed to mount /misc/smbmnt Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13538]: failed to mount /misc/smbpasswd Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13539]: failed to mount /misc/smbstatus Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13540]: failed to mount /misc/smbtorture Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13541]: failed to mount /misc/smbumount Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13542]: failed to mount /misc/smbclient Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13543]: failed to mount /misc/smbcquotas Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13544]: failed to mount /misc/smbfilter Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13545]: failed to mount /misc/smbmount Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13546]: failed to mount /misc/smbspool Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13547]: failed to mount /misc/smbtar Sep 1 21:51:14 freevo automount[13548]: failed to mount /misc/smbtree I am fairly newbie, so please go easy on me ;-) Mick _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
