I have a system running RHEL 5.5, and I am trying to mount a Windows share on a server using autofs
. (Due to the network not being ready upon startup, I do not want to utilize fstab
.) I am able to mount the shares manually, but autofs
is just not mounting them.
Here are the files I am working with:
At the end of /etc/auto.master
, I have:
## Mount this test share:
/test /etc/auto.test --timeout=60
In /etc/auto.test
, I have:
test -fstype=cifs,username=testuser,domain=domain.com,password=password ://server/test
I then restart the autofs
service.
However, this does not work. ls
-ing the directory does not return any results. I have followed all these guides on the web, and I either don't understand them, or they.just.don't.work.
Thank You
Best Answer
There should be an /etc/auto.smb already, use that, and add the following line to /etc/auto.master:
Now all cifs shares will show up under /cifs:
will show all the shares available. You might want to put some options in /etc/auto.smb to mount with specific modes. I have a auto.smb that I found out there somewhere and modified to do exactly that:
This will do what you want. I've used it myself.