On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:04:09 -0700, 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 You do know autofs has been set up by default so that it works out of the box. Just keep the original /etc/auto* files, make sure that autofs is running and do cd /net/server/foobar and you're there. All nfs partitions that a client can see are under /net/<server>/. In the above example, the server exports /foobar.
