Autofs under Fedora-12

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Nov 24 00:38:43 UTC 2009


Mogens Kjaer:
>> I would have made (after umount /common and removing
>> the empty folder /common):
>> 
>> ln -s /net/alfred/common /common
>> 
>> then autofs does the mounting automatically as soon as you
>> access the /common folder.

Timothy Murphy:
> I'm not clear on this.
> With the autofs setting I have, if it works,
> the directory is mounted (invisibly) as soon as I try to access it.

Yes, that is what should happen.  I've been doing something just like
Mogens Kjaer outlined, for many years.

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