On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 17:58:13 John Hodrien wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I > > have to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only > > problem is, I don't know how to do that. Can you either describe it to > > me or point me to suitable reading? Thanks > > Basically the automounter will just step in and mount things when you try > to access files within the directory. > > http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html > > That probably tells you everything you need, but I'll just note the basics. > > Basically you can have: > > /etc/auto.master: > > /remote /etc/auto.remote > > /etc/auto.remote: > > somemount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/blah/blah > someothermount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/foo/foo > > chkconfig autofs on > service autofs start > > Then you should be able to do: > > cd /remote/somemount > > When you do that, autofs will mount the share. > > There's a lot more you can do, you really do need to read the > documentation. Executable automount maps and ldap based maps really give > you a lot of flexibility on how you can use it, but you probably need > something very simple. > Thanks. Plenty to read, then :-) Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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