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Autofs+NFS unmount

I have configured NFS client to mount user's home using autofs automounter. /home of server is shared using nfsv3. I am using NIS (ypserve) for authentication. NIS and NFS both are configured on the ...
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How to disable a specific mount, when using automount over LDAP

I am using Ubuntu 11.04, on which NFS paths are automounted using AutoFS/LDAP. For example, /path1 and /path2 are auto mounted, but I want to disable automount for /path1, because I want to use a ...
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What's the benefit of AutoFS versus a static NFS mount?

I understand that AutoFS mounts shared on-demand and then unmounts them after a certain amount of idle time, but are there other advantages to AutoFS? For example, if my NFS server crashes (or ...
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Should media files (HTPC) using NFS mount using fstab/static or autofs?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with XBMC and am streaming media files from my fileserver (mounted using NFS). Right now I have fstab configured to mount my NFS share like this: 192.168.0.99:/tank/media ...
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NFS users getting a laggy GUI expierence

I am setting up a system (ubuntu 12.04) that uses ldap, pam, and autofs to load users and their home folders from a remote server. One of the options for login is sitting down at the machine and ...
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How can I prevent autofs from mounting local user's home?

I've set up NFS and LDAP on an Ubuntu server. The client is configured to mount the home directory (NFS via Autofs) when a user logs in, which all runs perfectly well. However, autofs also tries to ...
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Mount NFS share as a shortcut

I recently purchased a Netgear ReadyNas and have a question about mounting an NFS volume. Firstly I know how to mount the share in fstab. There is a lot of information around that describes how to do ...
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How to set an NFS network between my two Ubuntu PCs?

I want to merge information found here and there in order to record in one answer all steps to set my NFS network between my too Ubuntu PCs. This is useful time to time, for example after Ubuntu ...
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Can I set a time-out for auto-mounted shares that are unavailable?

I am using autofs to mount an NFS remote share at boot so it's mounted when I'm logged in. If the remote share is down, I can't login to Ubuntu, it hangs after entering my password. Any way to set a ...