Questions tagged [autofs]
AutoFS is a software application that allows file systems to be automatically mounted and unmounted on demand.
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AutoFS doesn't use user's krb5 ticket when in conjunction with sssd
I'm using a default /etc/auto.smb (uploaded to your convenience) and a single-line auto.master (/media /etc/auto.smb --timeout=300 --ghost) on Debian 10. SSSD is set up and working just fine - users ...
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Trying to automatically mount a backup device on plugin and run a script
I am currently trying to automate backups for my laptop and while doing so fell down some rabbit holes by using old and no longer working solutions.
Now I'd like to ask for some advice to improve upon ...
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AutoFS - Bash script to check if mount is ALIVE before proceeding or exiting
This is specific to autofs mounts.
I've found numerous ways to check a traditional mount, some use the /proc/mounts file. I can see my mount is still in that file even when the mount is not currently ...
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Drive mounts with mount, but not autofs automount
Second day on this, so I'm definitely doing something wrong.
Can mount a spare drive to user's home subdirectory mount point, with correct permissions for user to use it.
Doing that with just simple ...
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autofs cifs samba
Automounting not working correctly for CIFS shares; weird results
Base on the above question,
my issue is that my samba/cifs password do have '*' and '&' characters which point me to the lines:
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how to gracefully handle rsync failing, sometimes, to correctly read a directory?
Running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS fully updated on remote webserver
Running rsync 3.1.1 on remote webserver
I have a fairly simple setup where I allow some users to manage a set of publicly accessible files.
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How to add fuse filesystems to the mount command?
I have used linux distributions in the past where the "mount" command could auto-detect the filesystem on a drive and mount it without having to use the "-t" parameter.
Now, I am building my own ...
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AutoFS not working as expected with CIFS shares
I have this setup
Client: Centos 7.6.1810 up to date
Server: Windows 7 pro
AutoFS Configuration
# tail -1 /etc/auto.master
/srv/xray /etc/auto.xray
# cat /etc/auto.xray
cdm8240 -fstype=...
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Kerberos key fails with AutoFS
Our Kubuntu computers are configured to automatically connect to their network drive via AutoFS. When we upgrade machines to Kubuntu 18.04 LTS this AutoFS connection no longer works. It is still ...
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Allow all users full read/write access to CIFS share with automount/autofs
How can I configure autofs/automount so that every single user has full access to an auto-mounted CIFS share?
More information
This is what I currently have configured:
/etc/auto.master
/mnt /...
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Understanding Autofs mounting
So my auto.master looks like this, the server I am concerned with is server4-vn01.cifs.
/- /etc/server.cifs --timeout=400 --ghost
/- /etc/server2.cifs --timeout=400 --ghost
/- /etc/server3.cifs --...
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Fuse not Loaded When Trying to Mount
I'm trying to execute this command in terminal: sudo mount -t cvmfs <repository> /mnt/cvmfs and I keep getting Fuse not loaded returned to me. I'm not quite familiar with what this fuse in ...
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Alternative to autofs to mount CIFS folders in user home folders in multi-user environment
My use case seems very simple. I want to automount CIFS folder CIFS1 and CIFS2 which exist for all users on my fileserver in each user home during login on this multi-user 18.04 Ubuntu machine.
So ...
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AutoFS for mouting Samba share with Kerberos Ticket
I've setup a Samba AD on Debian Stretch. Another stretch client node is able to authenticate using AD credentials.
The domain user has limited rights on the client node, meaning he can't mount ...
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Centos 7.5 autofs posix acl support
On centos 7.5 I have mounted NFS share(from isilon server) via autofs service.
Now when I run
setfacl -d -m g::rwx /path/to/share/location
it gives error
setfacl: /path/to/share/location Operation ...
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Idle timeout for NFS share mounted with systemd automount
What I want to do?
I want to configure my /etc/fstab so that my NFS share was:
mounted automatically when accessed (auto-mount on-demand),
unmounted automatically after specified idle timeout (x-...
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Can autofs be used for a computation cluster? [closed]
I am planning to build a small computation cluster at home. I need share /usr/local and /opt directory on server machine to several computation nodes. There are compiled computation programs and ...
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autofs indirect mount in CentOS 7
I am using CentOS7. I have tried to test "autofs". I have created 2 centos servers as cent_ldap and cent_client. I have configured cent_client to use ldap authentication successfully.
In cent_ldap I ...
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Automatically remount boostfs drive
I'm working with the DataDomain server in our Commvault solutions. Anytime this server is rebooted the network disk in use for the solution does not remount. Right now this means we need to stop some ...
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sshfs with automount failing silently
I am attempting to "permanently" mount a network drive (CentOS 7.4) on my local machine (macOS 10.12 Sierra) using sshfs and automount
First off, is this actually the most appropriate tool to use ...
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How can I resolve autofs mount delays related to host probing?
I have an infrastructure of CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 client machines that rely on autofs to automount various NFS filesystems exported by a service elsewhere in my organization. Recently, the clients ...
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autofs mount all devices from specific type
I want to mount ALL USB devices with one autofs entry.
I can't mount the device by it's ID, Label or something like that.
I need to duplicate it and don't know every single usb device on every single ...
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How to automount SSHFS shares for a user upon login?
My question is how to mount SSHFS shares as the user (not root) upon demand or upon user login using only tools that are in my distro's core repos. I'm using Arch. I don't mind writing a small script, ...
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How do I automount a hard drive to samba using autofs?
I have a Raspberry Pi with samba installed. I've looked into autofs and saw the potential of automounting an external harddrive upon accessing it over the network by my windows machine.
Appearantly ...
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How to deal with freezes caused by autofs after network disconnect
I mount four servers (3 via cifs, 1 via sshfs) using autofs.
auto.master
/- /etc/auto.all --timeout=60 --ghost
auto.all
/mnt \
/server1 -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials....
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New files created through sshfs date from 1970
I wish to mount a remote Linux directory to my local laptop using sshfs. I do this by using autofs. In /etc/autofs/, I therefore have in the auto.ssh file (I used the Arch wiki to guide me for the ...
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Issues with autofs “problem reading master map, maximum wait exceeded”
I am trying to mount a cifs partition using autofs. After a lot of trial and errors, I finally manage to get it mounted (the main issue I ran into is that in the instructions, here, this line in the ...
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Mac OS Sierra 10.12 autofs mounts only the first specified NFS volume
I am having an issue with the Mac OS Sierra. I have added a NFS config in a auto_nfs for 2 NFS shares and the autofs picks only the first one.
Here's my auto_master:
#
# Automounter master map
#
+...
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Autofs Issues Mounting NFS Home Directories (CentOS 7.4) [closed]
I am having issues getting autofs to mount user's home directories via NFS. I have an NFS client (client.home) and an NFS server (server.home). Both systems are CentOS 7.4. SELinux is running in ...
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Autofs won't mount a mount that Automount -f -v will
I had an issue today that dinged my sanity pretty hard, so I'm posting it so some poor bastard who follows in my idiotic footsteps will maybe find solace.
Running Autofs on RHEL7. Basic CIF mount.
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AutoFS fails to mount Samba CIFS share
I have a CentOS 7 server named server1.example.com using Samba to share /srv/samba/share. //server1.example.com/share is the path to the share. I am not able to get CentOS clients to mount //server1....
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automount sshfs with autofs and sshpass
I want to mount partitions from a remote NAS that doesn't support login with a certificate.
I created or edited the following files:
/etc/ssh/sshpass.232 with ssh password
/etc/ssh/sshpass.232.sh ...
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autofs : dynamic mounting rule for s3 bucket
I successfully implement autofs to automatically mount s3 bucket to the server which running ubuntu server 14.04.5 by following this tutorials. but the number of bucket (that needs to automatically ...
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Need example use of autofs.master.d/
I'm trying to setup autofs 5 on Debian 9 (Stretch).
I want to mount nfsserver:/top/dir/tools to my /top/dir/tools
Read only is fine in this case and I'm not worried about uid mapping.
auto.master ...
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autofs ~/.hidden: No such file or directory
I am mounting home drives using autofs from a file server:
auto.master
/home /etc/auto.home
auto.home
* tyrell:/nfshome/
This seems to work great, but on the file server, tyrell I'm ...
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How to configure autofs on mobile system
I am using a laptop to access files on a remote research cluster. Originally I used a static mount with fuse and sshfs configured in /etc/fstab. This worked reasonably well on a workstation with ...
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Mount Google storage bucket with autofs
I'm trying to mount GCS buckets on demand with autofs. Closest they have instructions for is SSHFS like this:
mntpoint -fstype=fuse,allow_other :sshfs\#user@example.com\:
Following that example I do:...
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systemd: How do I automount a USB filesystem using /etc/fstab?
I want my USB filesystems to automount when I connect the device.
How do I setup automount with systemd via /etc/fstab?
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systemd: autofs containing autofs does not unmount
I'm trying to set up two directories, each automounted:
/mnt/dir
/mnt/dir/subdir
In my case, these are:
/mnt/btrfs-vol/rootfs (read only)
/mnt/btrfs-vol/rootfs/btrbk-snap (RW for taking snapshots ...
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autofs core dumps after configuring /etc/autofs/autofs_ldap_auth.conf
Some quick system information: I'm running Arch linux with all the latest software, LDAP is configured and (more or less) working. The autofs maps are stored on an LDAP server and these maps are used ...
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autofs on centos 6.8 to mount windows share: How to debug?
I am following the "even better method" documented here:
https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares
I am unable to get it to work. I follow all the steps, but end up with no access to the ...
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File contents scrambled on mounted NFS file system
I have a setup with one server and two clients, all running Debian. The server has several exported file systems which are mounted on the clients using autofs and NFS. Until a few days ago this worked ...
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Trouble with multiple autofs mounts
So, I am trying to mount folders from server1 and server2 on server0. I can't seem to get the second folder mounted. Here is what I did:
Created a folders /nfs/home and /nfs/programs on server0 . I ...
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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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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 this:...
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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 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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