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NFSv4: What's the point of the refer and replicas export options?
I'm trying to get some simple kind of failover working with an NFS share. There aren't hard requirements on data consistency during writes (even a working multi-server read-only setup would be fine) ...
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Failing using autoFS with windows server 2019
From Ubuntu Server 24.04LTS I am able to mount a Windows 2019 shared folder named:
//myserver.edu/wshared
which has "Encrypt data access" enabled at the windows server 2019 while using in ...
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autofs + submount NFS3 under NFS4
I have NFS4 shares from a NetApp appliance and NFS3 shares from a Linux server; I need to use autofs to first mount the NFS4 shares, then mount NFS3 shares as subdirectories. I can do this manually ...
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How can I ensure autofs.service starts before systemd-user-sessions.service?
I am trying to get a user's systemd services to start automatically upon boot in an enterprise where users' home directories are auto-mounted by autofs. The user has a service unit in ~/.config/...
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Autofs fails to mount a Windows share
I've got two machines: a 10.0.0.1 Windows 10 which shares one folder /Users/WS/Shared/, and a 10.0.0.2 CentOS 7 from which I want to mount this share. I can do this from commandline using:
mount -t ...
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freeipa server home directory automount
I have installed freeipa-server on centos and enrolled an ubuntu server to it, I have a freebsd server which is our storage server(I am going to enrolled the freebsd (storage server) to this freeipa-...
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autofs --timeout option not accurate
I have a simple autofs config where I set the option --timeout=30 on an indirect mapping.
When I access the unmounted storage via ll /my/mount/path and do a watch -n1 "mount | grep /my/mount/path&...
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Need help setup mount seaweedfs with autofs or systemd automount
I want to mount on demand using autofs or systemd automount. But I can't get neither of it to work.
With autofs. I have this file
cat /etc/auto.weed
/mnt/data -fstype=weed,allow_other,rw,filer=10.104....
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Using public / private key in SSH authentification through LDAP and NFS mounted home folder
I would like to use a public / private key to connect to a server which using LDAP for authentification. The issue is that the home folder is only mounted after login via AutoFS. How can I store the ...
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Add additional option on all automounts brought in from +auto.master
I am looking for a way to enable cachefilesd across all automounts that we inherit via +master.conf. To do this, I need to be able to add -o fsc to the mount options.
Is there a way to override the ...
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How should we automount home directories stored at different NFS paths at /home/$USER?
We're currently transitioning to storing all of our organization's user information in Red Hat IDM (FreeIPA). We have several thousand users, and mount user home directories over NFS from a NetApp ...
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Modify folder permissions of parent directory that were automatically created by autofs
I am currently following this guide to setup CentOS 8 to automount samba shares.
I am aware that we can change autofs auto mounted folders permissions using
uid=...,gid=...,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=...
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Why directories mounted with autofs are not visible in filesystem, but are accessible once full path is provided?
This is my first nfs / autofs configuration, so I probably configured something wrong. When I navigate to directory, which I added to /etc/auto.master I can't see any mount points, but when I issue cd ...
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Use autofs on host with Docker
I'm mounting CIFS share on a host to /mnt/nas using autofs.
On the host I'm running a PHP Docker container.
I can mount the /mnt/nas to this container using volumes inside a docker-compose.yml.
The ...
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Using LDAP: how to log in with SSH, mounting the Samba home directory with autofs?
I have spent some time setting up LDAP-based authentication in my MacOS, iOS and Linux network, taking account of the special quirks of MacOS and Synology (my NAS). SSH login (SSH keys etc.) works and ...
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