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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have no problem accessing this export from the server when I put it on fstab and mount it norrmaly from this server and others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I am missing something on the autofs configuration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joseph Loo<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 30, 2012 8:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: autofs not workung for me<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 01/30/2012 02:00 AM, Michael Vaknine wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I am trying to use autofs and it is not working for me.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I have a very simple configuration</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Auto.master</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># Sample auto.master file</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># This is an automounter map and it has the following format</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># For details of the format look at autofs(5).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#/misc /etc/auto.misc</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># "nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev"</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># options are explicitly given.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#/net -hosts</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># Include central master map if it can be found using</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># nsswitch sources.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># above) in the included master map any keys that are the</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'># precedence.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#+auto.master</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>/home/lookin2/filestore /etc/auto.filestore</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Auto.filestore</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>/home/lookin2/filestore -fstype=nfs 192.168.80.14:/home/lookin2/filestore</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>When I run automount –f –v I get </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Starting automounter version 5.0.4, master map /etc/auto.master</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>using kernel protocol version 5.01</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>mounted indirect on /home/lookin2/filestore with timeout 300, freq 75 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>the folder filestore is created but it is not mounted it remains empty no mather what I do.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Any help will be aprichiated.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Michael</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I assume you did ls /home/lookin2/filestore<br>Did you do a exportfs 192.168.80.14 (I think that is the correct command)? You need to make sure that the exported file system can be read by your machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>