Bug 9286
| Summary: | automount cannot mount "generic" filesystems | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | jhorva |
| Component: | autofs | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | jhorva |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-03-02 22:37:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is due to an inconsistency between autofs and the mount command, which is fixed in Raw Hide and our just-released beta. If you upgrade your autofs, mount, and samba-client packages to the newer versions, and change the fstype to "smb", all should be well. Here's the relevant snippet from my map file: tmp -fstype=smb,uid=nalin,gid=nalin ://blade/tmp Whoops, the inconsistency is between autofs and the various versions of Samba 2.0.x, where the smbmount command changed both names and options, and then changed back due to complaints about this sort of thing.... This should work correctly with autofs-3.1.4-4 from Raw Hide if you set the fstype to "smb". Please reopen this bug if you continue to have difficulties after upgrading. |
My Redhat 6.1 installation on an i386 fails to automount remote Windoze filesystems of type smbfs. The auto.XXXX file looks like this: shared -fstype=smbfs,uid=nt,gid=users,filemod=664,dirmod=775,login=itsme,passwd=se cret ://windoze/shared When attempting to access the directory, I get a message in syslog: Feb 9 17:38:34 sporty automount[15703]: cannot find mount method for filesystem smbfs My snooping around yields a potential problem at line 43 in file daemon/mount.c in the autofs-3.1.3 source package. Seems to be a simple logic problem. Note my comment in the snippet of code below: ... mod = open_mount(modstr = fstype, NULL); if ( !mod ) { for ( ngp = not_generic ; *ngp ; ngp++ ) { if ( !strcmp(fstype, *ngp) ) break; } if ( ! *ngp ) /*<<<<< (Joe Horvath 2/9/00) should read: if ( *ngp ) */ mod = open_mount(modstr = "generic", NULL); if ( !mod ) { syslog(LOG_ERR, "cannot find mount method for filesystem %s", fstype); return -1; } } ... Thanks...Joe Horvath jhorva.com