Questions tagged [autofs]
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How to change location of NFS share without changing autofs configuration
On our data server we currently share a location on an HDD raid /volume1/folder with multiple linux servers via autofs. Every server mounts this location to /data/shared/folder. We now updated to an ...
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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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What is the "auto.smb" equivalent for systemd automount?
I'm looking to migrate to systemd's automount from autofs.
One neat thing about autofs was that with the help of auto.smb, it was possible for autofs to automount on demand all the shares on a server ...
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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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Using public / private key in SSH authentification through LDAP and NFS mounted home folder
I would like to use a public / private key to connect to a server which using LDAP for authentification. The issue is that the home folder is only mounted after login via AutoFS. How can I store the ...
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Default file and directory permission for NFS mount via AutoFS
I can't figure out how to configure AutoFS to mount the NFS share in a way that all files and/or directories are created with umask=002 or 0777. All files are 644 and 755 for directories which seems ...
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Direct mapping works in autofs but indirect mapping does not
I have an NFS server where the /etc/exports file contains: /shared *(rw,no_root_squash)
I want to use autofs in another machine (Rocky Linux 8) to mount that folder but only the direct mapping method ...
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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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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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Modify folder permissions of parent directory that were automatically created by autofs
I am currently following this guide to setup CentOS 8 to automount samba shares.
I am aware that we can change autofs auto mounted folders permissions using
uid=...,gid=...,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=...
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Why directories mounted with autofs are not visible in filesystem, but are accessible once full path is provided?
This is my first nfs / autofs configuration, so I probably configured something wrong. When I navigate to directory, which I added to /etc/auto.master I can't see any mount points, but when I issue cd ...
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Use autofs on host with Docker
I'm mounting CIFS share on a host to /mnt/nas using autofs.
On the host I'm running a PHP Docker container.
I can mount the /mnt/nas to this container using volumes inside a docker-compose.yml.
The ...
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Using LDAP: how to log in with SSH, mounting the Samba home directory with autofs?
I have spent some time setting up LDAP-based authentication in my MacOS, iOS and Linux network, taking account of the special quirks of MacOS and Synology (my NAS). SSH login (SSH keys etc.) works and ...
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autofs is not mounting sshfs point while sshfs and mount -t fuse does
folks.
Recently I came over autofs and now trying to make my everyday life easier. I have a remote server that I use as I file share with a help of sshfs for years. So, I found some tutorials how to ...
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auto mount several SD cards (one after the other) to the same directory
I have several SD cards with contents of type cont_A that I would like to mount to /mnt/cont_A if one of them is plugged into the computer.
I have as well several SD cards with contents of type cont_B ...
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NFS mount on housing user home shares not mounting on Ubuntu 16.04
The issue I am trying to resolve is a bit of a head-scratcher. I say that because the issue is consistently inconsistent and not happening on all of the Ubuntu 16.04 VMs that are hosted in our ESXi ...
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systemd based automount never umounts when idle
The setup (not autofs, but systemd based automount):
# grep automount /etc/fstab
1.2.3.4:/vol/homedirs /home/roaming nfs x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=30
and:
# systemctl daemon-reload
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Disabling IP caching in samba or dealing with dynamic IP
We want to mount external storage that has been provided to us. We use something like the following in our /etc/fstab file on Ubuntu 18.04.
//external/storage /mounting/point cifs noperm,cred=/home/...
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Autofs and udev rules to restrict usb permissions to groups
I need some help trying to figure out how to restrict the reading and writing access of usb devices.
There are two groups on my system:
usbreaders: only should have rights to access and read the usb
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autofs with samba, sssd, openldap, kerberos
I want to mount a samba share with autofs.
srv.xxxxxxx.net is the samba server (proxmox container, Debian 10)
ldap2.xxxxxxx.net is the openldap (proxmox container, Debian 10)
gui.xxxxxxx.net is the ...
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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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Install packages that create home directory on automounted Linux servers
When installing certain packages, for example gitlab-runner, a directory needs to be created in /home/. If the home directories are automounted on NFS, then installation will fail.
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nfs mounts over wrong subnet when another mount happens first
I have a weird issue with an NFS server and clients that are connected over two separate private subnets.
The private subnets are 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0 and 10.2.0.0/255.255.0.0 addressed as .local and ...
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Ubuntu cannot mount CIFS share from autofs and KRB5
I've inherited an Ubuntu 14 Fileserver...
VERSION="14.04.5 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
Client machine is a fresh install of Ubuntu 18
VERSION="18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"<br>
autofs/bionic-updates,...
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autofs ssh fuse and permissions issue
I have a mounted remote backup space on a Centos 6 to perform remote backups..which are doing fine.. without issues
My /etc/auto.master file:
/- /etc/auto.mymount uid=0,gid=0,--ghost
My /etc/auto....
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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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Monitoring NFS mounts for existence
The issue we are seeing is that some of our NFS mounted directories are disappearing. Literally just disappearing. They continue to exist at the server end.
At the client (CentOS 7.4, using el-repo's ...
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Why does sssd query for all automountkeys when looking for a specific one?
I am attempting to convert autofs from using ldap maps to using sss maps.
However, it appears that sssd wishes to query for all automount keys rather than just the specific one it needs. This is ...
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Mount multiple NFS-Servers
I have multiple nfs-servers running in my network.
What is the best way to mount all servers on my ubuntu?
While researching I came across multiple possible solutions: autofs, fstab, automount. Any ...
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autofs can't mount a remote dir with sshfs on the host with deprecated key algorithm
Here is my configuration:
/etc/auto.master
/mnt/10 /etc/auto.10 uid=0,gid=0,--ghost
/etc/auto.10
root -fstype=fuse,allow_other,follow_symlinks,ssh_command=/etc/ssh/sshpass.10.sh :sshfs\#...
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Linux - Active Directory - autofs service
We integrated our Linux environment into our AD 2016. Now an additional request is to add autofs service, via AD, to provide to the admins (Linux-admins, DB-admins, Application-admins) their personal /...
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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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CentOS 7 nfs server makes autofs nfs clients running macOS 10.11+ crash
I'm trying to figure out why macOS clients reboots when accessing files on a NFS home directory automounted from a CentOS 7 server. The exact same configuration works very well with CentOS 6 NFS ...
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Ubuntu/OpenLDAP/Autofs : local user instead of LDAP user
I mount home directories for my LDAP users trhough autofs. It works like a charm except with one computer. On LDAP logs, I have :
ldap rpc.mountd[975]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.0.XX:...
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Autofs + Kerberos + NFSv4 works on RHEL, but not Ubuntu
We have our /home directories stored on a NetApp SVN, and are automounting them as NFSv4 with Kerberos. This seems to work flawlessly on RHEL7.x, however it will not work in Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 no ...
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Autofs mounted /home/<user> not included in backup [closed]
I have autofs mounted shared /home directories setup on server and it is working perfectly, when i need dir, it is mounted automaticly, when i dont, it is not present. But now i am working on backup ...
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How to autocreate home directories in automounted NFS directory?
I have a NFS server at nfs.example.com:/users. I have a normal server at client.example.com. When I do su - user, I want it not only to automount /users/user, but I also want to create /users/user if ...
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Failing to prevent autofs from mounting over local home directory
In a previous question, the original poster asks how to prevent autofs to mount over a local home directory:
How to prevent autofs from mounting over specific directories?
I am facing a similar ...
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Password prompt when accessing samba share through autofs
We have a file server on Ubuntu Server 16.04 using Samba which uses an external LDAP server for authentication. Additionally, the LDAP server has an automount definition for the file server's Samba ...
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Mount CIFS-share with users Kerberos-Ticket
we want to mount shares through autofs. Nothing special we thought. But: this must be done in some complex active directory circumstances. What we have:
integrated Ubuntu 14.04 workstations on which ...
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any autofs experts? how to get autofs and webdav to work together?
First off let me say that this is a repost of a question I posted in AskUbuntu. If this is against the rules then please remove this. Honestly, after further consideration of the topic I realized ...
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Automatically create home directory on NFS after LDAP login
My current situation is that I can successfully authenticate using ldap and pam, I also succeeded to use pam_mkdir to autocreate home directories in the /home filesystem.
What now I'm trying to ...
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How do I mount a home catalog using cifs and autofs with Active Directory authentication on CentOS7?
I'm trying to integrate a CentOS7 client with Active Directy authentication and automatically mounting the user homedirs with cifs.
I would prefer to use autofs, but I've so far been unable to make ...
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AutoFS/Automount doesnt mount ext4 imagefile on sshfs mount
I'm trying to automount an ext4 sparse imagefile on an sshfs mount but it doenst work like its supposed to be :/
I also mount the sshfs mount via autofs and this works like a charm but when I try to ...
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Autofs with multiple path parameters
autofs has a auto.master configuration file that assignes maps files to paths, and in these maps files we can define how to mount subdirectories of the paths from auto.master. These subdirectories can ...
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linux auto.nfs config gets updated periodically
I' have little experience with linux autofs. I can't help but keep noticing that files in /etc/ timestamps change periodically.
From documentation, my understanding is fstab is supposedly fixed(...
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autofs mounting without passwords
I have an existing autofs Centos-Centos mount. I forgot how I set those up without having to require a password.
# /etc/auto.folder
folder -fstype=nfs,rw 10.10.10.1:/folder
Now, I'm trying to setup ...
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ldap_add: Invalid DN syntax (34)
I am configuring my LDAP for roaming profiles using autofs, but when I run this command
ldapadd -x -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" -W -f automount.ldif
I get this error message
ldap_add: Invalid DN ...
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CentOS 7 autofs wildcard mount not working
I've got a couple of CentOS 7 client machines authenticating against OpenLDAP right now. The next step is to get autofs working. Which I have, but my map loads all users at once. I'd like to avoid ...
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NFS with autofs: mounting /run/lock gives permissions error
I'm running Ubuntu server 14.04 as an NFS server to another 14.04 machine (one's a mail server the other a web server where I'd like to run the MailMan admin GUI). I'm using autofs to mount the ...
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