On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 01:27, darklord wrote:
> I'm just curious, and would like to get everyone's input on Supermount. After
> running so long without it under v8.1, and now using it again under v8.2,
> well - I'm just about ready to disable it again. Can everyone just comment on
> whether or not they are using it, and maybe some pros and cons? Thanks!
>
I had all kinds of trouble with supermount,then discovered autofs. It is
so much easier and works perfectly. Here's how:
(As root):
supermount -i disable
urpmi autofs (it may already be installed)
You will then have three files in /etc. auto.master, auto.net and
auto.misc. autofs by default mounts under /misc, but I like it to mount
under /mnt as I am used to. So I made the following modifications to
these files:
My auto.master looks like this:
/mnt /etc/auto.misc --timeout=10
/net /etc/auto.net --timeout=10
My auto.misc looks like this:
kernel -ro,soft,intr ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux
cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom
cdrom2 -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom1
win -fstype=smbfs,rw,nosuid,nodev,username=x,password=x
://windows/c
My auto.net is not changed from the default.
So now I just type ll /mnt/cdrom and automount kicks in! Yay! :)
Only thing is that /mnt is empty until the mountpoint is mounted by
autofs. So in a programs file dialog you will usually have to navigate
to /mnt then manually type cdrom<tab> or cdrom<enter> to have the
mountpoint mounted and see the contents of the dir.
With autofs being so easy, I have no idea why so much effort has been
put in to supermount in the first place. As I said, it works perfectly
for me.
I hope this helps, let us know how you go...
Regards,
John...
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