trying to automount an NFS share

shahz · 07-18-2009, 07:10 AM

hi,

I am trying to automount an NFS share, the NFS share is on 192.168.0.30 Linux server, want to share it on Linux server with the ip address 192.168.0.100, I have editied the /etc/auto.master file as follow

/najo /etc/auto.najo

and in /etc/auto.najo file looks like

* -fstype=nfs,rw,nosuid,soft 192.168.0.30:/inst/&

I restart the autofs daemon, and when ls there is nothing shared.

what can be wrong.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 07-18-2009, 07:33 AM

Why don't you put the entry in your /etc/fstab file?

shahz · 07-18-2009, 07:38 AM

is it right entry within the /etc/fstab file

192.168.0.30:/inst /inst nfs rw,nosuid,soft 0 0

thanks

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 07-18-2009, 07:54 AM

Here is an example. This is what I have in mine:

Code:

<remote address or ip>:<name of remote directory to be shared> <location to mount remote share locally> nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,soft 0 0

You need to ensure the local mount point exists. What you have is correct, you just need to make sure you have created the inst directory locally.

bryanl · 07-18-2009, 09:41 AM

With autofs, make sure you have smbfs installed as well.

Use the auto.smb that comes with it. Uncomment its line in auto.master and set the root mount directory to something other than /smb if you want. Note that you do not have to create this directory as autofs takes care of that.

Identify the file server by name in hosts as that make things easier.

Create a credentials file with ID and password as /etc/auto.smb.[hostname]

restart autofs and ls the mount directory - you should see the smb servers on the network. ls one of them and you'll see the available shares.

see also Automatic discovery and mounting of the SMB network and Accessing Windows Or Samba Shares Using AutoFS

auto.smb is a script - you can run it and see what it does. you can also change the mount options if need be (as sometimes is needed to handle permissions or timestamp translations).