On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:30:43 -0500, Steven J. Brown <sbrown3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to use autofs in its simplest possible form, following > examples in Red Hat's documentation, to mount an nfs directory from my > desktop pc to my notebook. Everything seems to be in place because I > can mount the nfs export manually (at the command line or with > /etc/fstab) with no problem. I want to do this because I connect my > notebook to three different networks (or sometimes I don't connect to a > network) and on startup, the notebook seems to take forever looking for > the networks (to mount smbfs/nfs/ncpfs directories) that arent' there. > I'm hoping that autofs will reduce boot time. To get started, I tried a > simple one. Here's how I've set it up: > > Server (Desktop PC): > /etc/exports: > /home/sbrown 192.168.2.3(rw,sync) > > Notebook: > /etc/auto.master: > /misc /etc/auto.misc > > /etc/hosts: > 192.168.2.4 dadlx > > /etc/auto.misc: > dad -rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 dadlx:/home/sbrown For my nfs automounts I always use '-fstype=nfs', e.g. dad -fstype=nfs dadlx:/home/sbrown Regards, Chris
