HOWTO: Automounting local filesystems with autofs

[fezz]

I followed everything up to the the reboot.
After reboot I tried to start autofs but got the following error:

# /etc/init.d/autofs start
* Starting automounter...
* No autofs support available

I have the automounter has been added to the kernel exactly as in the steps.
I am using 2.6.11-r9 version of the kernel.

any thoughts?

thanks.

[jsosic]

Have you copied your new kernel bzImage over the old one which is places in /boot dir? autofs must be turned on, either as a builtin kernel option <*>, or as a module <M>. You've messed up something with the kernel configuration, or you forgot some step.

[random-feed]

I am having a problem with autofs, and I could not find any threads, posts or any other documents discussing a similar situation, so here it is:

I use autofs to automount the cdrom drive on my home router, a PII 350Mhz box. I want to share the mounted device with samba. Mounting works fawlessly, and I am able to access the share. However, once accessed via smb:// , the device will NEVER unmount. I read about a bug with autofs unmounting, but this is not the case -- if I stop or restart samba, the cdrom gets unmounted, i have the --timeout=1 option, so this is very easy to diagnose. I am certain no other clients are hooked to the share.

So, my question is: is there a way to make samba leave the shared dir alone when no activity is present, so that it can be umounted?

PS: My first Linux was Gentoo, installed 2 months ago. I used XP before that, so please excuse my ignorance. I did a lot of reading, but it never seems to be enough

-----------------

I got it - all it took was sharing the autofs mountpoint, not the dir of the mounted device. That was an easy one
_________________
If in doubt, mumble.

[jsosic]

That's more like a Samba question I'm not familiar with it so I wouldn't know...

[jsosic]

I've been playing with NFS, so I'm thinking about changing sections 4 & 5 of this howto. Local filesystems description would stay the same, only that few more lines would be added, and a little bit more explanation for NFS volumes. Do you think that would be ok, or should I write completely new Howto for NFS?

[kamikaze04]

I like the howto as it is. It is clear and easy to understand. I would write a howto for non-local systems, and put a link from this howto.

But it is only my opinion....
_________________
Todo lo que quisiste saber sobre google en: www.noticiasgoogle.es

[kernelcowboy]

I had automounter support for both versions v4 and v3 compiled into the kernel. the "why" isn't important.

automounting worked, but --ghost did not.

i was about to post to this forum and ask why --ghost isn't working. when i thought, oh, may be i have v3 compiled in too. i checked, and indeed I did. I disabled v3, recompiled. --ghost works fine now.

So, instead of writing to ask, I'm writting to hopefully help someone else out.

cheers

[Braempje]

Thanks for the --ghost tip, autofs is so great
_________________
Dictionary of the Flemish Sign Language - Woordenboek Vlaamse Gebarentaal

[kernelcowboy]

I have finally set it all up; I think the HOWTO was awesome, and got me almost all the way there. As a sanity check, here's what i did. Comments?

I have a small lan in my home office. I run gentoo on all my machines. samba. the desktop can mount a cd, floppy and usb mp3 mem stick.

i wanted to have permissions set for all users on my system. i'm behind a NAT. i'm assuming there's little threat, so i didn't need to lock it down too much. here's what i did.

/etc/autofs/auto.master

[^Tomahawk^]

thanks a lot, works very well for me
2.6.14-gentoo-r2
autofs 4.1.3-r4
together with udev rules this really rocks
_________________
on #gentoo, trying to find sense of life =)

[thoffmeyer]

Great how-to!
_________________
Conrad Guide, Current Maintainer

Join us on IRC
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #conrad

[jsosic]