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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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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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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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How to remember a mount point

I am using Red Hat Enterprise 6.3 and I have just mounted a new volume in one folder of my preference. After reboot that mount point was lost and the volume was mounted at his original place. In ...
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How do you get systemd to reparse /etc/fstab auto mounts?

If x-systemd.automount entries are modified in /etc/fstab, how do I get systemd to reparse the entries?
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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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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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Unable to restart automount

I am trying to restart automount as it consumes a lot of CPU: Tasks: 2392 total, 7 running, 2352 sleeping, 25 stopped, 8 zombie Cpu(s): 9.3% us, 28.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 61.5% id, 0.2% wa, 0.2% hi, ...
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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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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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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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VNC server won't start on AlmaLinux/CentOS 8

I could not get tigervnc to start on my AlmaLinux 8 machine. We have SELinux enabled and our home directories are automounted NFS shares (configured by IPA). I see errors in my /var/log/audit/audit....
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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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Unattended installation of Ubuntu from USB drive -- Not mounted correctly

I'm doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). In some cases, the USB drive is incorrectly mounted on /...
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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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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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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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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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Does automounting /home on NFS allow users created on server to log into client

I thought I had gotten /home mounting via nfs from my server to clients properly. I do not think I do. If you are on the server and make a user, you cannot then go over to the client and log in as ...
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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 a windows share

I have this line and it works mount -t cifs -o myuser //192.168.0.12/Public/Docs /mnt/cifs_shares/Docs But then I try with autofs and it doesn't In /etc/auto.master: /mnt/cifs_shares/Docs /...
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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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zfs - two pools with nested mountpoints and conflicting mount order

I have a problem with automounting separate pools, that have nested mountpoints. I am using ZfsOnLinux 0.6.2. The siuation currently is as follows: zpool1 ---> /var zpool1/log ---> /var/...
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autofs and NFS failover - can autofs remount?

I have this scenario: 2 NFS servers with /usr/share/man as exports (just as example, it can be anything), let say server A and server B (not replicas, just 2 independent servers on the same subnet ...
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With a ZFS root install, which partitions need to be `canmount=noauto` and why?

With a ZFS root install, which partitions need to be canmount=noauto and why? I am looking at a fresh installation of Ubuntu 20.04 with ZFS on root. I am using these instructions on the openzfs site, ...
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Mac OS X automount not mounting fstab entries correctly

I'm trying to automount a Windows SMB share on Mac OS X. The first thing I tried was to put entries only in /etc/fstab: $ dgrant$ cat /etc/fstab //darrengrant@d-grant/share /pc/share smbfs ...
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Automount smb drive on OSX

I have been trying to achieve smb drive automounting on OS Sierra but I am unable to do it properly. I hacked /etc/fstab which seems to work on this OS to the point that I am unable to force it to ...
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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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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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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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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. $ sudo apt ...
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Automount nfs on redhat 7.2 not works

I have the following nfd share folder on my linux client ( redhat 7.2 ) master1:/nfs 41932800 6601728 35331072 16% /nfsshare we decided to use the service auto fs in case this share ...
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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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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 works but autofs wont mount

I know this subject has been discussed so many times that I'm almost ashamed I haven't found the solution to my issue yet. Clearly there is something I quite don't understand and would really ...
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Retry mount NFS share if failed

I have a NFS share that mounts from /etc/fstab, so that it mounts on boot. But if the NFS share isn't available on boot, how can I make it so that it retries until it can mount it?
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Automount LDAP home folders in client machines

I have created couple of users on my ldap, and setup a couple of ubuntu ldap client machines, where users can login with their accounts. I now want to share their home folders and make it centralised ...
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Mount CIFS share with autofs

I have a system running RHEL 5.5, and I am trying to mount a Windows share on a server using autofs. (Due to the network not being ready upon startup, I do not want to utilize fstab.) I am able to ...
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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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sssd ldap authentication cannot automount home directories

I have managed to setup ldap authentication. but I do not manage to have the home directories automatically mount when logged in. the auto.master and auto.home are stored in the ldap. this is my ...
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Automount LDAP home directories on custom directory

Im trying to automount home directories which exported from an IPA server to a client.The setup is the following one : auto.master: /home/ldap /etc/ldap.file ldap.file : * -rw,sync server:/home/...
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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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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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boot2docker, docker mount.vboxsf: automount mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory [closed]

I am trying to automount an OS folder (Windows 8) not in the user folder into boot2docker on its init script, but run into the above error. Mounting works fine when I run it manually: sudo ...
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showmount is not showing any files while setting up and automount nfs server

I was following a bunch of live sessions about how to setup an nfs server. I created the file exports in /etc/exports and the file contained the following: /data -rw *(rw,no_root_sqush) I ...
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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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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 ...