AutoFS and sshfs not working together

[rujikin]

I am trying to get Autofs to work with sshfs kind of like how its listed here:

http://www.tjansson.dk/2008/01/autofs-a ... ct-couple/
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... s-over-ssh

However I think the autofs instructions might be a bit dated because some options listed are not valid today.

I've gotten sshfs to connect and it seems like it works how I hoped it would work with:

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sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions,uid=1000,gid=1000,IdentityFile=/home/sovereign/.ssh/remote remoter@192.168.1.100: /home/sovereign/remoter/

I put that into autofs like so:

auto.master

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# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#
#/misc  /etc/auto.misc
#
# NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the
#       "nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev"
#       options are explicitly given.
#
#/net   -hosts
#
# Include /etc/auto.master.d/*.autofs
#
+dir:/etc/auto.master.d
#
# Include central master map if it can be found using
# nsswitch sources.
#
# Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as
# above) in the included master map any keys that are the
# same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes
# precedence.
#
+auto.master
/home/sovereign/.remotefiles/ /etc/auto.sshfs

auto.sshfs

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remoter allow_other,default_permissions,uid=1000,gid=1000,IdentityFile=/home/sovereign/.ssh/remoter :sshfs\#remoter@192.168.1.100\:

I made the .remotefiles/remoter directories and they mount fine using the direct sshfs command. I just can't seem to figure out whats going on with autofs.

[mrmajik45]

Autofs instructions were from 2008. Also mint uses 18.04 now. Not 16.04 anymore. So it may be not compatible.

[rujikin]

Autofs instructions were from 2008. Also mint uses 18.04 now. Not 16.04 anymore. So it may be not compatible.

Oh yeah. Using Mint 17.3 and transitioning to 19.1.

It seems autofs was installed already so I didn't reinstall or modify that beyond configs. Didn't want to break anything. Looks like mint has some autofs modules installed by default.

It would be nice if I could get this to work how they spoke of it. I don't need it at all times.

[rujikin]

Never got autofs working but I am just starting it using startup programs. Works well enough till I or someone can figure out autofs. Just input the sshfs into custom command and works on startup.

[ajgringo619]

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auto.sshfs

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remoter allow_other,default_permissions,uid=1000,gid=1000,IdentityFile=/home/sovereign/.ssh/remoter :sshfs\#remoter@192.168.1.100\:

You need a dash in front of the options, like this:

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remoter -allow_other,default_permissions,uid=1000,gid=1000,IdentityFile=/home/sovereign/.ssh/remoter :sshfs\#remoter@192.168.1.100\:

Do you have autofs starting on boot-up?

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sudo systemctl enable autofs