Thanks to some excellent suggestions from Bill Campbell, I decided to try
getting AMD to automount SMB shares on a nearby Win machine.
I am hoping someone can now tell me what to do get it to work without
hosing my machine.
Here's what I did:
Created an empty directory at root of /autowin.
Created the actual mountpoint at /mnt/michael.
Added this short section to /etc/am.d/conf:
[/autowin]
browsable_dirs = no
map_name = /etc/am.d/smb
I believe that works as amd loads it and seems to like it.
Created a new file /etc/am.d/smb modelled after localdev:
# /etc/am.d/smb : automounter map for remote smb shares
/defaults type:=program;\
mount:="/bin/mount mount /mnt/michael";\
unmount:="/bin/umount umount /mnt/michael";\
opts:=rw;fs:=/mnt/${key};
michael fs:=/mnt/michael
This is a very simplistic map for mounting via amd.
Added this to /etc/fstab:
//michael/shared /mnt/michael smbfs
username=michael,password=abcdef,user,noauto 0 0
That seems to work because I can do (as root) 'mount /mnt/michael' and
'umount /mnt/michael' and it works great.
So now I do 'ls /autowin/michael' which tells the kernel to tell amd to
mount the thing that's supposed to show up at that location. But the 'ls'
command hangs. And after that any attempt to even do 'ls /' hangs. And 'ps
aux' has this in it permanently:
root 1168 0.1 0.2 1340 512 ? S 16:53 0:00 mount
/mnt/michael
root 1169 0.1 0.6 3616 1620 ? S 16:53 0:00
/sbin/mount.smbfs //michael/shared /mnt/michael -o rw noexec nosuid nodev
noauto user username michael password XXX
root 1170 0.0 0.6 3616 1652 ? S 16:53 0:00
/sbin/mount.smbfs //michael/shared /mnt/michael -o rw noexec nosuid nodev
noauto user username michael password XXX
There shouldn't be 2 of them and they should go away very quickly.
These won't die via 'kill' I have to do 'kill -9'. Even then 'ls /' hangs
and if I poke around enough KDE eventually just hangs completely. And even
with those processes gone, my machine won't come back to normal except via
a shutdown (which doesn't complete) and a long fsck afterwards.
Wierd thing is that the 'mount' actually succeeds. Because 'ls
/mnt/michael' shows the share on the win box. The log (/var/log/messages)
shows after the automount attempt:
Feb 23 16:53:55 linux kernel: smbfs: Unrecognized mount option noexec
Feb 23 16:53:55 linux mount.smbfs[1170]: [2002/02/23 16:53:55, 0]
client/smbmount.c:send_fs_socket(387)
Feb 23 16:53:55 linux mount.smbfs[1170]: mount.smbfs: entering daemon
mode for service \\michael\shared, pid=1170
That last message is the same one if the mount is done manually from the
command line.
I spent a 2-3 hours on Google and www.samba.org and www.am-utils.org and
neither one seems to acknowledge the existence of the other. I did find
this one guy that wrote a book, the last chapter of which is "Using the
Automount Daemon (AMD) with the SMB Filesystem". But I'm resisting sending
him $30 to explain something that shouldn't be that hard.
http://www.ssc.com/ssc/samba/toc.html
That's not to mention all those articles saying how amd is legacy and we
should be using autofs.
So can someone tell me how to make this work? I'd be grateful.
Thanks,
Michael R. Hipp
Microsoft Windows XP: Just say no.
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