Automount CIFS and NFS Mint 18.3 (works) vs 19.1 (no works)

[karen7]

In Mint 18.3 I used the auto mounter to mount some CIFS and NFS shares from an older QNAP. The idea is to only have shares mounted when required and unmounted after a period of inactivity. It worked reliably so I'd like to keep using this method. I recently did a clean install of Mint 19.1 and tried to use the same configuration only to see if fail. I've worked on this for awhile now and am not getting anywhere so some help would be great!

Manually mounting works as long as I specify vers=1.0 for CIFS as the QNAP is quite old (there are reasons not to update it.) Note: qnap is 192.168.100.100

These work using temp directory. All my testing has been as the root user.

# mount -t nfs qnap:/Users/Karen /mnt
# mount -t cifs //qnap/Multimedia /mnt -o credentials=/home/karen/.cred.txt,vers=1.0

The 18.3 configuration was really just two files:

The /etc/auto.master has the following line:

/users /etc/auto.users --timeout=30 --ghost

The /etc/auto.users file has the following lines.

karen -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,intr 192.168.100.100:/Users/Karen
video -fstype=cifs,credentials=/home/karen/.cred.txt,uid=502,gid=100,file_mode=0644.vers=1.0 ://192.168.100.100/Multimedia

So restart the autofs...

service autofs restart

Nothing of note in syslog. IF all went well changing to /users/karen or /users/video would show the contents from the qnap.

But...no go

root@iota:/# ll /users
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 17 18:23 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 May 17 18:23 ../
root@iota:/# ll /users/karen
ls: cannot access '/users/karen': No such file or directory
root@iota:/# ll /users/video
ls: cannot access '/users/video': No such file or directory


Any ideas what changed between Mint 18.3 and 19.1 that made this stop working? And, perhaps more importantly, how to make it work again?

[altair4]

ls: cannot access '/users/karen': No such file or directory

I haven't used NFS in 114 years but it seems to me that /Users/Karen is not the same thing as /users/karen.

ls: cannot access '/users/video': No such file or directory

/users/video is not defined in your auto.users file but /Multimedia is.

BTW, did you change the default uids on your system? Ubuntu starts with uid=1000 not uid=500.

[karen7]

ls: cannot access '/users/karen': No such file or directory

I haven't used NFS in 114 years but it seems to me that /Users/Karen is not the same thing as /users/karen.

ls: cannot access '/users/video': No such file or directory

/users/video is not defined in your auto.users file but /Multimedia is.

BTW, did you change the default uids on your system? Ubuntu starts with uid=1000 not uid=500.

The Qnap likes to use Capital letters so I just replicated them. The case doesn't appear to make a difference (tried it).

The format of the auto.users file is correct. It shows the mounts below /users.

The base UID was changed to 500 to replicate what's happening under the hood of the qnap.

[karen7]

ls: cannot access '/users/karen': No such file or directory

I haven't used NFS in 114 years but it seems to me that /Users/Karen is not the same thing as /users/karen.

ls: cannot access '/users/video': No such file or directory

/users/video is not defined in your auto.users file but /Multimedia is.

BTW, did you change the default uids on your system? Ubuntu starts with uid=1000 not uid=500.

The Qnap likes to use Capital letters so I just replicated them. The case doesn't appear to make a difference (tried it).

The format of the auto.users file is correct. It shows the mounts below /users.

The base UID was changed to 500 to replicate what's happening under the hood of the qnap.

[SOLUTION] Answered my own question. The /etc/auto.users file needs to be 644 instead of 755. Really?!?