AutoFS is a software application that allows file systems to be automatically mounted and unmounted on demand.
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Automount with autofs, encfs and keyring access
I have build myself a nice setup:
I have encrypted encfs folders that are mountable with autofs, i.e. when I enter the folders they will be automatically decrypted. I have the encfs password added to ...
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Can Ubuntu 16.04 setup autofs to automount /media/autousb with read and write permissions if am user frank?
I spent 6 hours yesterday testing @Ingo Blackman's answer to the
Unix and Linux Stack Exchange article,
[Automounting USB sticks on Debian
When I use a udev rule ACTION=="add" and RUN+="/bin/ln -...
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help identifying autofs error codes
I am quite new in linux and need help to identify what my autofs errors are saying. I tried to google it but I can't find the problem.
May 23 01:25:06 delta-0-12 automount[18796]: ...
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Nested directories managed by autofs?
Is it ok to have nested directories managed by autofs?
e.g.
/nfs/zfs
/nfs
On my Debian 8 machine, I have /etc/auto.zfs like this:
repo -fstype=nfs,rw 192.168.0.2:/repo
and /etc/auto.nfs like ...
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Is it bad to have thousands of autofs rules?
My company literally has thousands of NFS volumes, which we need to mount on a few of our servers. However, we never mount all of them at the same time; typically we mount about 12 at a time. Most of ...
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Autofs: I'm able to mount one folder but not the other
I'd like to use autofs to mount two directories from my laptop to my lan-server. The problem is, that autofs mounts one directory but not the other...
This is how my laptop exports the directories:
/...
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Autofs with remote and local home directories at same folder
I have a NFS server exporting home directories for remote users and the workstations have local and remote users. I want to configure autofs to mount a remote user home directory as a subdirectory of /...
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Autofs : Multi LDAP
I prepare the migration NIS to LDAP maps.
I use autofs for mount nfs directory. ( User home & /usr/local/xxx )
To work with 1 ldap server but i would set to backup server. I test this :
cat /...
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autofs asks password for passwordless samba share on Centos 7
I have a samba share that does not require password. Here are non-default lines in my smb.conf:
[global]
map to guest = Bad User
[distr-ro]
path = /home/distr
public = yes
...
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NFS mount with fstab vs autofs
What method is best to use for mounting a NFS share
from another machine? Mount using /etc/fstab entry or Mount using autofs?
what is the difference between them?
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FUSE hangs trying to mount network filesystem on login
I am using Fedora 23 and I have autofs set to automount some s3fs FUSE filesystems when directories under /mnt/s3 are accessed. Since I set this up, I always experience an additional delay upon ...
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autofs: how to check if a given directory is a mount trap, from userspace?
Mount traps are core elements of the implementation of autofs in Linux, and "any directory provided by a filesystem can be designated as a trap" (per autofs4.txt); from kernel space, one'd check if "a ...
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Debian Jessie start rpcbind and nfs-common at boot with systemd
On my Raspbian (based on Debian Jessie), I need to start at boot rpcbind and nfs-common services because I need them to start autofs at boot for a NFS mount.
Since Debian Jessie now has moved to ...
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NFS mount at boot with autofs on Raspbian Jessie
I'm trying to configure my RPi with Raspbian Jessie to use autofs to mount at boot a NFS share from my QNAP NAS.
The manual mount with
mount -v -t nfs server://share /mnt/share
works and also the ...
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AutoMount A Windows CIFS Share to CentOS 7 Using Active Directory In A Single SignOn Scenario
I have a CentOS 7 machine I setup which is integrated into a Windows 2k8r2 Active Directory domain using SSSD and RealmD.
I am using AD Security Groups to restrict domain user access to the Cent ...
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How to mount to subdirectory of autofs
I have follong problem - I'd like to use autfs in one place to mount to subdirectory of autofs. I.e. I'd like to have something like:
foo -fs=...
bar/baz -fs=...
The problem is that (according to ...
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Mount a large squashfs in a way that allows random writes (to a separate filesystem)?
I just received a few-dozen-gigabyte squashfs that contains a PostgreSQL database. In order to be able to conveniently query it, I need to have a write access, which makes it complicated. Is there a ...
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AutoFS special map does not work
I'm trying to use an AutoFS special map as referenced here. Surprisingly, I've found little information about that on the Web. (This might be because the reference above seems to be the only one ...
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Debian autofs: why this syntax doesn't work?
I have setup nis server,and automount maps
i want every user which login mount home
from nfs server.
This is auto.master
+auto.master
+auto.home
/home /etc/auto.home
This is auto.home
* ...
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What does automount do when no maptype is specified?
I have inherited a server with an entry in /etc/auto.master of /home auto.home. In the manual on this server (and on another more recent server) it's clear that map-type is optional.
What I can't ...
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NFS Share on Centos 7 Fails to automount
I have a fresh install of Centos 7. I cannot seem to auto mount an NFS share located on 192.168.254.105:/srv/nfsshare from the Centos client.
Mounting the share manually however, works perfectly.
/...
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auto.master: “/net -hosts” make default vers=3
The built-in autofs map -hosts is very handy, but it mounts nfs with that stupid vers=4 option, which maps all numeric uids to nobody by default.
I'd like to change the default mount options to vers=...
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Not able to automount NFS share
I am using RHEL 6 and not able to mount NFS Share via automount . My Config files are as follows :-
#cat /etc/auto.master
/mnt auto.mnt
#cat /etc/auto.mnt
/nfsshare -fstype=nfs,no_root_squash,rw,...
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Debian stretch asks for root password in order to mount usb disks after upgrade
After apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade, Debian Stretch started to ask for root password for external usb disks.
Creating a /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/55-usb-mount.pkla ...
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autofs shares not updated after reload
What's the best way to make autofs aware of any changes to its map files (e.g. changes in auto.home below) without the need to stop the service on RHEL 6.7?
According to autofs man page
If a map ...
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Debian Jessie, copy file on NFS share (autofs) at shutdown
I'm on Jessie 8.1 so I use systemd to launch a service at shutdown. My service uses a script to copy a file on a NFS share (mounted by autofs).
It doesn't work, I know the script can copy a file on ...
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autofs 'failed to mount autofs path' as service but not manually (selinux)
I'm on CentOS 6.6 and I'm having a strange problem with autofs.
I'm trying to mount an smb share on /var/www/html/mysite/docfolder, so I created a docfolder inside the mysite folder, ran chmod 777 on ...
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Passing automount options in FreeBSD
I seem to be unable to automount nfsv4 shares in FreeBSD 10.1.
All of my mounting information is stored in an LDAP database and the shares are on a NFSv4 server.
I've gotten the mapping right so ...
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how to disable autofs4 [closed]
this line is from the output of dmesg -e on Ubuntu 15.04 using systemd and UEFI:
[ +14.874691] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'autofs4'
as it shows it takes 14 seconds to load. To my knowledge, ...
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What's wrong with my NFS setup?
I had previously been able to configure an NFS server on a computer running CentOS 6.6, and to mount the file system in a Virtual Machine with the same OS and using autofs.
Last week I did a fresh ...
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Automounts: All mounting and will not umount on its own [closed]
I have a few SLES 11.2 servers. They do something really strange with automount. We have nearly 500 possible automounts our users and their codes may need, including automount entries for each user'...
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automount ext4 external hdd partition for owned by specific user
I'm trying to figure how to mount an ext4 formatted external HD with permissions for a specific user using autofs, but I'm only able to mount it as owned by root.
I have read that ext4 mount points ...
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SSSD and autofs
I am trying to set up SSSD to get automount maps from Active Directory.
I think my settings are correct but it uses the wrong username to query AD.
It takes whatever that is set as "mapname" (behind ...
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Using autofs to mount a NFS share
I am trying to setup a RHEL 7 machine with an autofs NFS mount (the NFS mount is a Windows 2012 R2 server running Services for NFS).
Here are the contents of /etc/auto.master:
/nfs /etc/auto.nfs
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SELinux disabled, net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies and nfs
OS is RHEL 6.2.
I appear to be having an issue with SELinux. I've disabled it in /etc/sysconfig/selinux, however, when my host starts the command sestatus show that I'm in permissive mode.
Searches ...
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Autofs timeout when accessing read-only file system [closed]
I've configured a auto-mount system (using autofs) with a timeout to mount a read-only (squashfs) file system.
The mount gets unmounted after the timeout even though there is read only activity on ...
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How can I see automount points in Linux?
We use autofs at work and I'm having trouble remembering some mount points. With autofs, you can only see currently or recently mounted volumes on a particular machine. How can I see the rest?
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Wildcard automounts with systemd
I’m running jessie/sid with systemd 208 and try to convert the following wildcard autofs configuration to either an /etc/fstab or .mount/.automount definition.
$ cat /etc/auto.master
/home/* -fstype=...
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Autofs home directories with passwordless logins
I want a setup where a user home directory is mounted on login (autofs).
This is working with password based authentication. However, I want passwordless authentication, by generating public keys.
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Linux: difference between using autofs with NFS and just using fstab
What is the difference between using auto.master and having autofs automount your NFS mountpoints versus just putting the info in fstab? Linux Red-Hat 5/6
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The importance of the order in domain controler names for setting an LDAP server, is there any reason?
I wonder if there is any reason to speficically put the domain controlers in the proper order, when configurung a LDAP server using autofs.
For example if specify on a RedHat/CentOS the dc domain ...
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autofs error - “No such file or directory”
I am trying to link a remote RHEL machine to our network. I can now ssh between the machines using fixed NAT addresses. I have copied the /etc/auto.misc, /etc/auto.master and /etc/exports files from ...
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Cannot stop autofs on FC19
I'd like to temporarily disable autofs on my fedora 19 x86 install. I would like to insert USB drives without them auto-mounting. Typing:
service autofs stop
Returns:
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl ...
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Issues accessing CIFS share directories
Disclaimer 1: Crossposted from Serverfault because there was no activity over there.
Disclaimer 2: This question is similar to Automounting not working correctly for CIFS shares; weird results but ...
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What process is accessing a mounted filesystem sporadically?
I have a Solaris 10 server with autofs-mounted home dirs. On one server they are not unmounted after the 10 min timeout period. We've got AUTOMOUNT_TIMEOUT=600 in /etc/default/autofs, I ran automount -...
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Can AutoFS keep a share permanently mounted on Solaris?
I have a share mounted on an Oracle Solaris application server that read/writes data onto the share periodically. I have automounted it with a timeout of over several minutes but is there a way to ...
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In what situation would it be more beneficial to use AutoFS over vfstab for shares dedicated to just one server?
Consider an environment of three Solaris servers (Server1-3):
Where Server1-3 all share a mount nas-server.company.com:/vol/appls-backup, for storing backups and recovery related files at periodic ...
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wheezy: nis/autofs doesn't work
I have a few computers with debian lenny on them.
One of them has a nis server: 193.167.1.75
I can automount my home directory when I log in:
>ssh 193.167.1.80 -l myuser
>pwd
/home/nis/myuser
...
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Autofs home folders from solaris 11
I'm having trouble since 2 days with autofs.
I have a Solaris 11 Server.
There I share the folder /export/home with the following command:
share -o rw -d „Freigabe von /export/home“ /export/home
My ...
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autofs mounts not disconnecting after inactive
I have autofs installed on several linux servers that are connecting to central NFS server for the users /home directories. It works great when mounting the directories on login, but the mounts never ...
