On Thu Oct 10 2002 at 15:42, Duan Doroeviae wrote: > Hi all, > > I have problem seting automount on RH8. Here is relevant parts from > config files: > > /etc/fstab > /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 > 0 > > /etc/auto.master > /cd /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 > > /etc/auto.misc > cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom > > > /cd doesn'e exist. > > So when i put CD in drive it doesn't automoutn. Same story for my USB > key, which is visible on /dev/sda1. If you do "ls /misc/cd" then you will see that the automount will indeed happen. /cd is irrelevant, it is /misc/cd (since it is in /etc/auto.misc, where /misc is the parent directory). To illustrate the point I'm trying to make: I have another entry in /etc/auto.master that references something like /etc/auto.smbhost, where /etc/auto.smbhost has entries for some of the shares on a local windows box, eg: cdrive -fstype=smbfs,rw,username=user%passwd,workgroup=mygroup,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=644,dmask=755 ://smbhost/cdrive (Sorry for the long line, but it needs to be like that). So whenever reference is made to /smbhost/cdrive then automount will automagically smbmount the "cdrive" share on the smbhost windows box (ie, mount //smbhost/cdrive on /smbhost/cdrive , or whatever the share is called). The mount point /smbhost needs to be made by you, but the /smbhost/cdrive subdir only exists when automount creates it, so don't do a "mkdir" to create it :) > Any idea ? Can you see the pattern here and how it works? (very cool). The /etc/auto.XXX name you choose -- which can be completely arbitary depending on your style and tasts -- refers to the /XXX base directory of the automount points for everything referenced in each of your /etc/auto.XXX files. For /cd referenced in auto.misc, the base directory point is /misc/cd for that device. This is *really* cool if you are using automount for mounting /home directories off a remote filesystem when you are using something like NIS, kerberos and/or ldap to make a user's home directory available via NFS (or whatever) on a number of hosts. In this case, you need to add an entry in auto.master (on each client host) that references /etc/auto.home and then have /etc/auto.home reference the remote server's directories (which need to be, eg, exported and available via NFS). If you want to "live dangerously" but conveniently, try creating an /etc/auto.mnt file :-) > Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE) Good luck. Cheers Tony
