On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:43 -0700, Mike wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Mike wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Craig White wrote: > > > >> Trying to get my head around plain autofs before I attempt ldap > >> > >> I can nfs mount via /etc/fstab... > >> #srv1:/home/storage/users /home/storage/users nfs user,suid,dev,exec > >> 0 0 > >> > >> It's commented out and not presently mounted > >> > >> why doesn't this work? (comments removed) > >> > >> # cat auto.master > >> /net /etc/auto.net > >> /home/storage/users /etc/auto.misc > >> > >> # cat auto.misc > >> cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom > >> /home/storage/users -fstype=nfs srv1:/home/storage/users > >> > >> # service autofs restart > >> Stopping automount: [ OK ] > >> Starting automount: [ OK ] > >> > >> # ls -l /home/storage/users > >> total 0 > >> > >> it should show all user files > >> > >> Why doesn't this work? I've been through every man page, etc. > >> > >> Craig > >> > > > > I'm by no means an expert but I use syntax like this for auto mounting CIFS > > shares. > > > > in /etc/auto.master: > > /home/storage /etc/auto.misc > > > > then in /etc/auto.misc: > > /users -fstype=nfs srv1:/home/storage/users > > > > -- Mike > > > > D'oh! > > in /etc/auto.misc that should be: > users -fstype=nfs srv1:/home/storage/users ---- it creates a '0' size directory which of course is unusable... drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-11-21 15:46 users ;-( This is Fedora 8...does that matter? Craig
