autofs I'm confused

Zvezda · 12-12-2001, 09:46 PM

my goal is to mount my Cdrom drive in my Samba server from a windows p/c I can do this now but very flakey (using mount command in Samba) I've been reading about autofs hoping this will help
but there are so many how to's on doing this and so many different ways anyone have a simple setup for me to try or a layman term article would be appreciated

Redhat 7.2
Samba 2.2

DavidPhillips · 12-13-2001, 12:50 AM

All you have to do is share it and use

mount -t smbfs //server/share /localfolder/

what's on the cd you are trying to mount?

Zvezda · 12-13-2001, 09:35 PM

from my smb.conf i have
root prexec=mount /dev/cdrom
root postexec= umount /dev/cdrom

this works but will not umount unless i access another application have to sometimes reboot Win p/c to allow umount this configuration is unstable my thoughts were to setup a cd juke box I have a 3 cd changer + an extra cdrom drive. autofs looked appealing as it allows mounting drives on the fly and umounting after a specified time