HowTo: Auto Mounting Samba Shares Using AutoFS

[freen]

Hi,
I've followed this HowTo and everything was working fine. However, recently I no longer have write permissions to my autofs mounted samba shares.
I can write to them if I navigate via the network, so I don't think it's the NAS, but the autofs folders are read only.
Can anyone help?

[altair4]

Unless you changed your mount instructions I don't know of any changes to autofs itself.

Would you post the map file please:

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cat /etc/auto.sambashares

And what desktop environment are you using. The reason I ask is that there is a known issue with thunar in XFCE and AutoFS.

[freen]

Here you go:

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Music.freencloud -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/freen/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 ://freencloud.local/music
Movies.freencloud -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/freen/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 ://freencloud.local/movies
Backup.freencloud -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/freen/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 ://freencloud.local/freenbackup
Pictures.freencloud -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/freen/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 ://freencloud.local/pictures

...and I'm using cinnamon

[altair4]

Change the first line from this:

Music.freencloud -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/freen/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 ://freencloud.local/music

To this:

Music.freencloud -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/freen/.smbcredentials,uid=freen,iocharset=utf8 ://freencloud.local/music

Then restart autofs:

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sudo service autofs restart

And see if that fixes it for that particular mount.

If it does then add the uid option to all your mount expressions.

[freen]

Hi altair4.
Thanks for that. It worked!

[tomsey]

I'm having some problems with autofs when logging in.
My NAS spins down the disks when they aren't used.

When logging into my user in Mint the desktop only will load when the mounts are connected, which takes about 15 seconds because the NAS needs the spin up the disks.
Normally the login takes like 2 seconds.

Can I fix this in some way?

[altair4]

I'm having some problems with autofs when logging in.
My NAS spins down the disks when they aren't used.

When logging into my user in Mint the desktop only will load when the mounts are connected, which takes about 15 seconds because the NAS needs the spin up the disks.
Normally the login takes like 2 seconds.

Can I fix this in some way?

I have never had to deal with that use case so I'm not sure how to resolve that issue. I don't think that you can fix that through AutoFS itself or even though Linux itself but I'm just not sure.

Does the NAS device itself have a control for that?

[Nomin]

Thank you for this clear guide, worked well with unRAID shares!

The only minor issue I found is that though mount -command from CLI doesn't require a password, the shares would auto mount only after I added the password to the auto.sambashares file - with a blank (space) password they didn't mount.

[sleepyhead]

Thanks for this tutorial, it works great on Linux Mint 17.2 for syncing a KeePass database from an OpenWRT SMB share.

[blockhead47]

I know this is an old post but it is still relevant, very informative and exactly what I needed to know.
Yes I did google for this information but did not find the concise explanation here.

Thanks again altair4.

EDIT: As I maintain multiple systems this solution is better for me than viewtopic.php?f=42&t=144997.
I feel safer modifying the /etc/auto.[your_name_here] files than the /etc/fstab files. If I do something stupid in the fstab the system may not boot.