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using chained automount to mount home directory

I have set up two directories mounted with automount (via LDAP): in the /home directory automount is configured to mount * -fstype=bind :/network/srv/home/& in the /network directory one ...
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automount with curlftpfs

i would like to automount my backuftp with curlftpfs, i added curlftpfs#<serverip> /backup/backupftp fuse allow_other,uid=0,gid=0,umask=0022 0 0 in /etc/fstab and put the login details in /...
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OSX 10.6 integration into NIS/netgroup/automount infrastructure

I have an existing infrastructure where accounts are maintained under NIS (yp) with no local unix accounts. Also, all the standard maps including hosts, mail aliases, netgroups, etc...are maintained ...
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Automount mac home directories using NFS4

I'm trying to set up automounting of user home directories using NFSv4 on Mac clients. Everything appears to work as expected except for logins via the Mac GUI. These hang with a spinning cursor. ...
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How to use systemd as automount for cifs when uids and paths needs to be set up on demand?

I'm trying to convert an autofs setup to systemd for user home dirs through cifs. In essence the problem is to provide the mount command with uid, gid, cruid and UNC per user account when the mount is ...
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SSHFS: Transport endpoint not connected

There are a number of posts across the Stack Exchange sites relating to the issue in the title, but none seem to offer that great a solution. This post I guess is a shameless attempt to bump the issue ...
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Is there any way to get an AD bound linux system to mount home directories from a Windows server?

We've been experimenting with integrating linux systems into what is largely a Windows domain, with a Windows-based Active Directory server. After considerable trial and error, we have successfully ...
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Automount ATA/SCSI drives with systemd

I am attempting to automatically mount all ATA/SCSI drives on boot using systemd and udev without utilizing /etc/fstab. This is necessary because filesystems need to be mounted on directories named ...
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Create a new VHD and mount it without DiskManagement window popup with Powershell

How can I create and mount a new VHDX volume without a drive letter assigned? On some servers I get the behaviour described below, on others it works like it should. So there must be a system setting ...
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nfs autofs automount of exported filesystems is empty on nfs server

I am having issues with empty nfs automounts on the nfs server itself. I'm running RHEL5.7 64bit exporting 4 directories as follows: /export/site/server13 *(fsid=0,rw,sync,crossmnt) /export/site/...
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automount stops working due to hanging mount.nfs processes that leave /etc/mtab~ lock file

I've got many automount entries in LDAP for mounting ~200 nodes between each other. Often, the automounter stops working. After debugging, I figured out that it can be fixed by running rm -f /etc/...
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How should we automount home directories stored at different NFS paths at /home/$USER?

We're currently transitioning to storing all of our organization's user information in Red Hat IDM (FreeIPA). We have several thousand users, and mount user home directories over NFS from a NetApp ...
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Autofs is forgetting mount points

I have a set of mount points which I use autofs to access. They have been around for quite some time, and in systems I've inherited running CentOS6 admins before me have implemented cronjobs ...
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Scriptless automount for systemd Linux systems

What is the proper way to do a boot/hot-plug automount for ATA and USB storage devices on Linux systems using systemd without requiring a GUI or a user having to be logged in? It seems that calling ...
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Eject device requires root rassword after automount

I configured automount utility to mount my usb flash drive when it's plugged. It also sets my current user as owner of mountpoint, but when I'm trying to ejevt flash drive, I'm prompted a passsword. ...
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How to prevent autofs from stalling system when nfs share is not available

This problem has been there in OpenSuSE 10.1-12.3 and (K)Ubuntu 10.04-14.04 and I'd like to get rid of it now: We have a common software directory on an NFS share. Client-side autofs setup # /etc/...
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Strange glitch with NIS

Good day. One of the network users with the NIS account (yp and automount) has some problems: after editing network service configufation file (/etc/sysconfig/network) and rebooting (/etc/init.d/...
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Home directories are automatically mounted after the user is added to /etc/passwd

In Ubuntu 12.04 I have some users whose home directories are NFS-mounted by automount. All the NFS and automount configurations are right. For a very specific use case, I need to add some lines ...
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Automount directories only on certain clients via NIS and NFS

Is it possible to serve certain files via NIS only to a group of clients and not to all of them? It's probably a very easy task but I'm searching for a while now and don't seem to find an answer. I'm ...
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Automount parses NIS map incorrectly on SLES 11.2 x86_64

Good morning, I came across a problem in SLES 11.2 x86_64 where the automount daemon parses a NIS map file incorrectly. It seems to be working fine in SLES 11.1 32 bit, and I cannot see any ...
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Using automount on RHEL5, why are variables in the auto.master never expanded?

I'm migrating from NISPLUS to LDAP (openldap) and from RHEL4 to RHEL5. The LDAP server is running on RHEL5u4 as are the clients. On RHEL5 variable expansion in auto.master never works, whether in ...
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Why are make jobs failing to find dependancies on automounted filesystems?

...that title is probably a bit misleading. This is the situation. I have a collection of CentOS 4.x x86_64 systems which are used as a compute farm. The directories for users and tools and code ...
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autofs mac os x afp not loading as correct user?

I am way out of my depth, and I am trying to get all of my nodes on a cluster to mount a drive on my head node. I am using OS X 10.6. I've got /etc/auto_master and /etc/auto_afp configured according ...
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freeipa server home directory automount

I have installed freeipa-server on centos and enrolled an ubuntu server to it, I have a freebsd server which is our storage server(I am going to enrolled the freebsd (storage server) to this freeipa-...
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Multiple IP nfs mounts

We have an enterprise file system that provides multiple IPs, server by several nodes. Our clients are Ubuntu 20.04 mounting based on a DNS name that returns a set of IP addresses. This seems to work ...
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Not automount volume after GlusterFS client booting up by autofs

I have configured GlusterFS between 3 rocky servers and mounting the gluster volume under /srv/gluster/vol01 directory. I had to install glusterfs-client in the 4th machine. My primary objective was ...
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Linux: How to auto mount home for specific users from remote

I hope this question was not asked before, but I could not find something which really matches my problem. Following scenario: We a park of 10 (or more) linux machines with the same user accounts (...
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Need help setup mount seaweedfs with autofs or systemd automount

I want to mount on demand using autofs or systemd automount. But I can't get neither of it to work. With autofs. I have this file cat /etc/auto.weed /mnt/data -fstype=weed,allow_other,rw,filer=10.104....
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Add additional option on all automounts brought in from +auto.master

I am looking for a way to enable cachefilesd across all automounts that we inherit via +master.conf. To do this, I need to be able to add -o fsc to the mount options. Is there a way to override the ...
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`findmnt` and `ls` still see a physically disconnected external storage drive

Here is an /etc/fstab record example of one of the mounts as per x-systemd.automount and other goodies: UUID=XXXX-XXXX /media/XXXX-XXXX auto noauto,nofail,nouser,uid=root,gid=users,umask=007,X-mount....
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adding a new hard drive for data under linux with zfs

I cannot get my zpool dataset to preserve and mount after reboot I am sure I am missing something basic, but here goes: I have Linux (Artix) installed on /dev/sda as ext4. Note: Artix does not use ...
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overlapping NFS shares

in /etc/exports I have: /home XXX.XXX.XXX.128/25(rw,no_subtree_check,root_squash) 192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_subtree_check,root_squash) /home/user XXX.XXX.XXX.128/25(rw,no_subtree_check,root_squash) 192....
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General Quesiton about where to mount a RAID VD volume, etc

We recently re-installed UBUNTU on a system that had UBUNTU system on a 500 GB RAID VD (1 slot) and DATA on another RAID VD (5 slots, RAID 5). After booting up the new system the RAID VD ...
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usb stick "not authorized to perform"

Hello (sorry for my poor english). I have a fresh install of desktop clients linux mint 19.2 with a NIS authentication. Local users can plug usb-stick and it automount without problem. On the other ...
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unable to find suitable address when attempting to mount folder shared with samba

I am running into issues attempting to mount a folder on a CentOS server, which was shared from another CentOS server. I set it up following option two on https://www.howtogeek.com/176471/how-to-share-...
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Trouble automounting NFS share on Centos 7

I have a fresh install of Centos 7. I cannot seem to auto mount an NFS share located on 192.168.254.105:/srv/nfsshare from the Centos client. Mounting the share manually however, works perfectly. /...
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Oracle Database with autofs

We run our oracle databases (11 & 12) on NFS on Redhat 6. We do not use ASM. Is it acceptable to use autofs for all of the various oracle files? Thanks, Al
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RHEL6 autofs maps with subdirectories and LDAP

All the documentation I see shows, even for file based, mounts that will show up on the client computer like /test/mymount and you can have as many /test/mymount2 /test/mymountN as you want. What I ...
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Mounting a webdav share to its original Linux server

Ok, so normally, a server provides a webdav share, and that can be accessed by mounting it on some other computer. What I want to do is to mount it (permanently) not elsewhere, but on the actual ...
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/etc/auto.master vs /usr/lib/systemd/system/*.automount in centos7

What's the difference/dependency between autofs and systemd automount and declarations in /etc/auto.master versus /usr/lib/systemd/system/*.automount in CentOS 7 ? Do they do exactly the same? If ...
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Windows: Automounter daemon for NFS?

Unix has autofs for automounting NFS. I find it wonderful to be able to: cd /nfs/my.nfsserver.example.org/exporteddir/mydir and have autofs lookup the DNS name my.nfsserver.example.org, mount ...
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What causes partitions to be mounted at boot?

I'm upgrading machines from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy. I do all the setup with FAI - disks, packaging, everything. So they come up ready for production. Its all good. One particular machine has two ...
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Where to define sshfs options when using autofs?

I have used the following guide: http://www.tjansson.dk/?p=84 to mount an SSHFS using Automount. The implementation works great. However, I need to add an option to SSHFS as defined here: http://...
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Moving usb mounts ubuntu 10.10

I use a usb 1Tb hard driver for backups. I have three of them and I have one one site (two weeks old) for the next backup, one off site (one week old), and one in the system (current back drive). I ...
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"Too many levels of symbolic links" in NFS via automount resolved by restarting Docker

This is bizarre and while I have a workaround, I'd prefer a permanent fix. I have a small group of GPU machines running Ubuntu 14.04 which I am using as workers for a cloud service that's effected ...
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