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This seems like one of those things that should be easy as
can be, but I’m not getting anywhere… so with the assumption that I’m
just digging myself in deeper and over thinking it, I’d like to pose the
problem here and ask for help. The issue, I have several windows and a solaris
box mounted from my linux server, but due to network
outages, power outages, stupid users turning their servers off on occasion, etc…
the mounts occasionally go dead. As it stands, my solution to this is to go
into the linux server, umount
and then mount the mount point. Then everything is good again, until the next
thing comes up. The solution I’ve been led towards, autofs Ok… going to boil this down to one machine and one
share (I’ll do a windows one)… As it stands, in my /etc/fstab I
have //machine/share /mnt/backups smbfs credentials=/etc/fstabpwds/credfile,rw,user,gid=sambawrites,fmask=0774,dmask=0774
0 0 Ok, now I’ve done an apt-get install autofs, and it went fine. I know have two new files I
believe I’m supposed to worry about. /etc/auto.master
& /etc/auto.misc So my auto.master looks like /misc /etc/auto.misc
–timeout=60 #I know I don’t
want this kind of timeout for my particular issues, but right now I just wanna get it working at all Then in my /etc/auto.misc I have Backups –fstype=smbfs,login=<login>,passwd=<pwd> machine:/share Now I know this is drastically wrong for a host of different
reasons… but I’m stumped on the fix. The things I think are goofy… I should be using /etc/auto.mnt I
think? With /mnt /etc/auto.mnt
in the my auto.master…
but then can I define multiple points under /mnt when
I start adding others? I don’t know at all if this machine:/share is the
right syntax, it seems to be what I find in the tutorials online, but most of
them use automount for local devices I’d also like to use a credential file in the auto.misc, but that’s another problem… like I
say, right now I just want it to work. Am I supposed to remove my entry in the /etc/fstab? Where should I book looking for this mounted directory now?
I was still checking /mnt/backups, but I have a feeling
it’s /misc/backups or
some such now? Thanks for any help, even if that help is just a point
towards a good manual which addresses mounting samba shares instead of just
mounting a cd or a floppy. |