Re: making the mountpoints visible all the time

[Alexander Macdonald <alexandermacdonald@yahoo.com>]

I'm using kernel 2.6.0-test9, i could only see patches for 2.4 so i 
guess this has the latest autofs in it allready right? I've also 
upgraded my daemon to autofs-4.1.0-beta3. I then tried running this:-

automount -g /mnt/network/samba/computerA file /etc/autofs/samba

in the file /etc/autofs/samba I have this:-

download    -fstype=smbfs,username=guest,password=none ://computera/Download
upload        -fstype=smbfs,username=guest,rw,password=none 
://computera/Upload

it works fine but it still doesnt do the "ghosting"



Rigler, Steve wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org
>>[mailto:autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org]On Behalf Of 
>>Alexander Macdonald
>>Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 6:13 AM
>>To: autofs@linux.kernel.org
>>Subject: Re: [autofs] making the mountpoints visible all the time
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>>Ian Kent wrote:
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>>>The autofs4-2.4 module build kit or the patches contained in 
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>>it or the
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>>>patches contained in autofs-4.1.0-beta3 can give you this 
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>>for some of the
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>>>maps. NIS, LDAP and file maps work at the moment.
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>>>I's in the expected place on kernel.org.
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>>not sure what you mean by file maps, but I'm trying to mount 
>>samba and 
>>nfs shares so i guess I'm out of luck...
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>In order to view the mountpoints before they are mounted you need
>to have the newer version of the kernel module which is available
>at kernel.org.
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>The maps aren't really specific to the type of filesystem you are
>trying to mount.  You can get your maps from a local file, NIS, LDAP,
>etc.  They can contain information to mount smb, nfs, or even local
>filesystems.
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>If you install the newer kernel module, you can make your mountpoints
>visisible with the ghosting option.  One way to enable this is to 
>set it in your /etc/auto.master like:
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>/somedir	file:/etc/auto.somedir	-g
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>Or you can add the "-g" to the "daemonoptions" variable line in 
>/etc/init.d/autofs.
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>-Steve
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