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Automouting NFS share inside NAT'd LXC container fails

I have 2x Ubuntu 14.04 LXC setups One is on bare metal hardware and containers are assigned IP adresses directly from the network The other one is on an ESXi virtual machine and using NAT via the ...
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cachefilesd vs NIS automounter

I want to cache NFS mounts My NFS mounts are handled by the automounter which is governed by NIS I need to add the mount option, fsc, to the mounts to enable the cache => Where do I add this option?...
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Containers loses its volumes which are autofs sshfs mounted from a remote server to the host. How can I autorecover when the mount is down

I use autofs to mount a remote folder via sshfs to my local machine. On the local machine I have a docker container running which uses the same mount as a volume. If for whatever reason the mount is ...
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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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aufofs fail to mount cifs shares on Ubuntu 22.04

I followed the instructions to mount my cifs shares via autofs (https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Autofs/) but unfortunately, autofs doesn't any of them. /etc/auto.master looks as following # # Sample auto....
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mount with cifs and sec=krb5 fails with "Required key not available"

The problem First time posting here, and also not the most super experienced ubuntu user, so I hope that I can describe my problem well enough. I am trying to mount a windows fileshare to our ubuntu ...
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Using autofs to mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 to /media/autousb

I am trying to automount an internal sd card reader when the sd card is inserted into a laptop. I have already been able to get external SD card readers to automount once the card is inserted, and an ...
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SSHFS recognised SSH Key, still asks for password

I had no problem using sshfs and autofs and my server was doing OK. I am mounting my backup server as a drive on my actual server. But suddenly I noticed it is no longer mounting the backup drive. ...
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NFS mount shows root directory after some time

I have some NFS4 shares mounted via autofs. E.g. /mnt/autofs/MyPictures When I navigate in this directory, e.g., going to /mnt/autofs/MyPictures/2017-01/partyWithHugh, after some time, Nautilus shows ...
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AutoFS with Kerberos passing root UID instead of user UID at login, fails to mount

On a Ubuntu 16.04 test VM, I can automount my homedir (as CIFS in this example, NFSv4 behaves similarly), but only after I have already logged in. Apparently, autofs is passing UID=0 instead of my ...
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confused with autofs example

I am exploring the autofs with ubuntu, and I got it working, but something doesn't quite make sense to me. this is what I got: $ pwd /nfs/nfs/mnt/nfs_export $ ls kvm_the_1st.img lost+found ...
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Mounting usb device by hardware port using autofs under Ubuntu via executable map

I am trying to mount a usb storage device, plugged at a specific port of my pc to a defined location under Ubuntu. Its supposed to mount every device which was plugged at exactly this port to there ...
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Could not chdir to home directory

I have configured my machine with autofs to mount an LDAP users directory when they log in to a machine. I have created a directory in home called /guests. However when the LDAP user logs in, it isn't ...
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Mounting Home Using AutoFS and CIFS and Kerberos to Network Path

I am attempting to implement AutoFS on realm joined Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machines to mount the user's home path via Kerberos authentication and a SMB/CIFS share but keep hitting a wall and am uncertain ...
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auto.home from AutoFS Maps from Active Directory not working

I am trying to use auto.home which is stored on AD, but not having much luck. I have followed https://care.qumulo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014470007-Serving-AutoFS-Maps-from-Active-Directory-AD-to-AD-...
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automount process starts 5 minutes after system boots

New to ubuntu, and I have been looking every place I can find to fix this issue. I really need my automount process to start when the system starts, not 5 minutes after. I have a program that starts ...
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mount.cifs: silencing the "No dialect specified on mount" message

I am using autofs to mount CIFS shares automatically as described in the German Ubuntu users wiki. This works perfectly fine, except that every time a share is mounted, a warning message is logged to /...
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What causes loss of autofs CIFS share to hang Ubuntu 19.04?

On 19.04, I use autofs to automount windows shares. It works great until I shut down the windows machine. Doing so hangs my 19.04 machine. My nemo-desktop becomes unusable, and I cannot restart gnome. ...
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Help with AutoFS

AutoFS has been kicking my butt the last few times I have tried it. I have it installed and running, edited the auto.master and an auto.network file under /etc, but can't get it to mount my NFS ...
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autofs is not able to mount the remote folder

Hi I am trying to automount remote file system using autofs. For this I installed autofs % sudo apt-get install cifs-utils autofs Then I edited /etc/auto.master to have the following line: /ufs /...
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