can someone post their /etc/auto.net file?

[icthy]

Hi, I'm trying to mount a remote filesystem via autofs (on FC3), but when I look at /var/log/messages, I keep getting errors from auto.net. I think my auto.net file is messed up. Can someone please post what they use? Alternatively, can someone plese tell me what's wrong with mine? I get an error on the last line of the file (the line that begins with home -fstype), where I'm trying to tell it to mount the directory /home/me that lives on the computer at 128.150.72.58

#!/bin/sh

# $Id: auto.net,v 1.5 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $

# Look at what a host is exporting to determine what we can mount.
# This is very simple, but it appears to work surprisingly well

key="$1"

# add "nosymlink" here if you want to suppress symlinking local filesystems
# add "nonstrict" to make it OK for some filesystems to not mount
opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid"

# Showmount comes in a number of names and varieties. "showmount" is
# typically an older version which accepts the '--no-headers' flag
# but ignores it. "kshowmount" is the newer version installed with knfsd,
# which both accepts and acts on the '--no-headers' flag.
#SHOWMOUNT="kshowmount --no-headers -e $key"
#SHOWMOUNT="showmount -e $key | tail +2"

# Newer distributions get this right
SHOWMOUNT="/usr/sbin/showmount --no-headers -e $key"

$SHOWMOUNT | sort +0 | \
awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- '
BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 }
{ if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print " \\\n\t" $1, key ":" $1 }
END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }'
home -fstype=nfs,rw,hard,intr 128.150.72.58:/home/me

Thanks,

Derek

[Heon2574]

mine

#!/bin/bash

# $Id: auto.net,v 1.8 2005/04/05 13:02:09 raven Exp $

# This file must be executable to work! chmod 755!

# Look at what a host is exporting to determine what we can mount.
# This is very simple, but it appears to work surprisingly well

key="$1"

# add "nosymlink" here if you want to suppress symlinking local filesystems
# add "nonstrict" to make it OK for some filesystems to not mount
opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid"

# Showmount comes in a number of names and varieties.  "showmount" is
# typically an older version which accepts the '--no-headers' flag
# but ignores it.  "kshowmount" is the newer version installed with knfsd,
# which both accepts and acts on the '--no-headers' flag.
#SHOWMOUNT="kshowmount --no-headers -e $key"
#SHOWMOUNT="showmount -e $key | tail -n +2"

for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
do
        for M in showmount kshowmount
        do
                if [ -x $P/$M ]
                then
                        SMNT=$P/$M
                        break
                fi
        done
done

[ -x $SMNT ] || exit 1

# Newer distributions get this right
SHOWMOUNT="$SMNT --no-headers -e $key"

$SHOWMOUNT | LC_ALL=C sort +0 | \
        awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- '
        BEGIN   { ORS=""; first=1 }
                { if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print " \\\n\t" $1, key ": " $1 }
        END     { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }
        '

[fsck]

Derek,
auto.net is not a regular automounter map, it's used for mounting /net/<hostname> automagically. Use auto.misc instead and make sure it's uncommented in auto.master.

C.

[icthy]

Thanks Heon.

to fsck, thanks for the advice. Yeah, I'm trying to mount desktop files on my laptop, and thought autofs was the way to go. I'm a total newbie with respect to networking, and I've been following the instructions in http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=64680 by kosmosik, but it's not yet working. It's clear the last line of my file is wrong, but I'm not sure why.

[fsck]

That file is a shell script, not a mounter map file. If you put automounter lines in it you'll get all sorts of errors about "home: command not found" or suchlike.
Take the line out of auto.net, and put it in auto.misc. Then edit auto.master and make sure the auto.misc line does not begin with a #. Then restart the automounter (service autofs condrestart), cd to /misc/home and you should be away.
Also, check the autofs service is set to start on boot (chkconfig --list autofs).
C.

[marcos]

That's mine:

#!/bin/bash

# $Id: auto.net,v 1.8 2005/04/05 13:02:09 raven Exp $

# This file must be executable to work! chmod 755!

# Look at what a host is exporting to determine what we can mount.
# This is very simple, but it appears to work surprisingly well

key="$1"

# add "nosymlink" here if you want to suppress symlinking local filesystems
# add "nonstrict" to make it OK for some filesystems to not mount
opts="-fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,nosuid"

# Showmount comes in a number of names and varieties. "showmount" is
# typically an older version which accepts the '--no-headers' flag
# but ignores it. "kshowmount" is the newer version installed with knfsd,
# which both accepts and acts on the '--no-headers' flag.
#SHOWMOUNT="kshowmount --no-headers -e $key"
#SHOWMOUNT="showmount -e $key | tail -n +2"

for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
do
for M in showmount kshowmount
do
if [ -x $P/$M ]
then
SMNT=$P/$M
break
fi
done
done

[ -x $SMNT ] || exit 1

# Newer distributions get this right
SHOWMOUNT="$SMNT --no-headers -e $key"

$SHOWMOUNT | LC_ALL=C sort +0 | \
awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -- '
BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 }
{ if (first) { print opts; first=0 }; print " \\\n\t" $1, key ":" $1 }
END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }
'

[icthy]

I'm starting to see now. Thanks marcos and especially fsck. It looks like the directions I followed did things in an odd way. I've fixed auto.misc, auto.net, and auto.master, and it seems they are working fine. But it looks like I still have an issue. When I try and cd to /misc/home, nothing's there. /var/log/messages shows:

Aug 10 13:47:15 dereklaptop automount[9952]: >> mount to NFS server '128.150.72.58' failed: server is down.
Aug 10 13:47:15 dereklaptop automount[9952]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure 128.150.72.58:/home/derek on /misc/home
Aug 10 13:47:15 dereklaptop automount[9952]: failed to mount /misc/home

/etc/exports on the server says:

/home/derek/      128.150.72.*(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

and /usr/sbin/exportfs says:

/home/derek        128.150.72.*

I've checked and the nfs service is running on both machines, and neither machine has anything in the hosts.deny file. I think I'm getting close, but I'm not sure what to do next. Can anyone help?

[fsck]

You might well be in the realm of selinux or the firewall settings now, I suggest they would be the next place to look. Check out system-config-securitylevel.

[icthy]

Thanks fsck. Your posts have been very helpful.

[fsck]

No problem Let us know how you get on.

[icthy]

I fixed the problem. Turns out I had to change the line in /etc/exports from this:

/home/derek/ 128.150.72.0(rw,synch,no_root_squash)

to this:

/home/derek 128.150.72.0/24(rw,synch,no_root_squash)

I'm not sure what was wrong with the previous statement, but am a happy camper now. Thanks again to everyone.

[fsck]

Ah. The first was a specific IP, the second allows a range of IP addresses to connect. In this case, anything on the 128.150.72.x subnet.