Re: Getting autofs to work "the Debian Way (TM)"

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya nate

you probably need to add more options into your autofs config
file for the floppy

assuming you have
	vi auto.master
	#
	.. stuff..
	#
	# mount the floppy
	/.autofs	/etc/auto.fd  --timeout=60
	#
	#

	vi auto.fd
	#
	# allow users to mount read/write the fd
	#
	floppy	 -fstype=auto,sync,nodev,nosuid,umask=0  :/dev/fd0
		( add "gid=users"  if you want "users" group to write it
		( or "umask=007"

ls -la /.autofs/floppy
touch /.autofs/floppy
- make a line from /mnt/fd instead of /mnt/floppy or something 
	( ln -s /.autofs/floppy /mnt/fd )

c ya
alvin

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> Greets all.
> 
> I've managed to get autofs installed and going.  Unfortunately, there
> seem to be a couple of bugs I'm having trouble resolving concerning the
> access of floppy disks.
> 
> First, setting -fstype=auto causes the mount daemon to give an error
> when accessing a vfat or msdos formatted floppy.  Setting this to vfat
> causes it to work as expected allowing the contents of the disk to be
> read.
> 
> Second, writes to the disk cannot be performed by a normal user account.
> The directory autofs creates, /var/autofs/misc/floppy, is owned by root
> and in group root.  Even though my normal account is a member of the
> floppy group, writes do not occur.  However, having set up my /etc/fstab
> properly my normal account can mount a floppy with the 'mount /floppy'
> command and can do writes, etc. on the disk.
> 
> The first case seems like a bug in automount(8) as moun(8) seems
> perfectly capable of auto detecting the filesystem type and mounting it.
> 
> The second case seems more involved and would require the created
> directory to have a different group than the default of root.
> 
> I'm setting this system up for a user as a desktop and wish to make
> things as easy as possible.  If anyone has solved these problems, please
> pass along your knowledge.
>