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yorrd

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Registered: 2013-07-21

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[SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Preconditions:

I set up autofs according to the wiki,
set up my nfs server and
checked my nfs drive using showmount -e <ip>.

So far everything is good.

Running autofs, the /net directory stays empty and this appears in the log:

Apr 09 16:51:59 Kai_D_Mar15 sudo[2068]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: create_client: hostname lookup failed: Name or service not known
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: create_client: hostname lookup failed: Name or service not known
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: get_exports: lookup(hosts): exports lookup failed for .Trash
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: key ".Trash" not found in map source(s).
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: create_client: hostname lookup failed: Name or service not known
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: create_client: hostname lookup failed: Name or service not known
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: get_exports: lookup(hosts): exports lookup failed for .Trash-0
Apr 09 16:52:04 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: key ".Trash-0" not found in map source(s).
Apr 09 16:52:07 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: key ".Trash" not found in map source(s).
Apr 09 16:52:07 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[2077]: key ".Trash-0" not found in map source(s).

Can someone please tell me where I have to start looking? I'm at a dead end.

Last edited by yorrd (2015-04-12 10:36:36)

nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Are you using ip address for nfs or hostname?

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yorrd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Are you using ip address for nfs or hostname?

Am I missing something? I've just added "/net -hosts --timeout=60" to /etc/autofs/auto.master, expecting for it to search the network for possible nfs exports

satanselbow

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

... and you reboot after the kernel update?

yorrd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

... and you reboot after the kernel update?

Of course I did, thanks for asking though

nomorewindows

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Possible permission problem on your autofs configuration files?  You might even try systemd's automount feature.

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yorrd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

The config files are all set up like default and the directory is created by autofs, I don't know where it could possibly be wrong.

I don't want the systemd feature though Yes of course, I'll try that tomorrow, but it bugs me that it doesn't work the way it should.

I have tried this (manually setting the export dir instead of auto detecting): https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 98#p874398. The output was very similar:

Apr 10 00:58:08 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[12343]: key ".Trash" not found in map source(s).
Apr 10 00:58:08 Kai_D_Mar15 automount[12343]: key ".Trash-0" not found in map source(s).

Painless

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Registered: 2006-02-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Hi,

I think you have to have hosts or DNS entries for each of your hosts involved in your NFS set up for the autofs /net feature to work.

My guess with the ".Trash" errors is that you're using a file mangler to view your /net share, and the mangler is trying to find or create a directory called ".Trash", which causes autofs to try to mount ".Trash", which of course fails because there is no host called ".Trash".

Rob

yorrd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Hi,

I think you have to have hosts or DNS entries for each of your hosts involved in your NFS set up for the autofs /net feature to work.

My guess with the ".Trash" errors is that you're using a file mangler to view your /net share, and the mangler is trying to find or create a directory called ".Trash", which causes autofs to try to mount ".Trash", which of course fails because there is no host called ".Trash".

Rob

So how would I go about doing that? Adding those to the /etc/hosts file? If yes, in which format?

You're saying it scans the /net directory for things to mount? Would I have to create a directory with the name of my server then? Or what am I missing here?

Painless

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Hi,

Well, usual /etc/hosts format:

<IP_address> hostname

No, you wouldn't have to add any entries in /net.  Autofs will do that for you.  It's probably because your file manager is trying to "find a host" called ".Trash" that those errors crop up.

Just change directory into /net/<hostname>.

Rob

yorrd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Ok, then I didn't misunderstand that. My hostfile is updated now, but autofs doesn't change its behavior. There's still nothing in /net.

Ok that makes sense. Then I can probably ignore those errors though, right?

Still wondering why it doesn't find the export drives though...

Painless

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Open up a terminal and type:

cd /net/hostname

where the hostname is of the server which has the NFS exports

yorrd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Oh... I'm feeling kinda dumb now. So there's just no directory showing in my file manager. That would be kinda good though, how do I get my fm to show those directories (thunar)?

Last edited by yorrd (2015-04-12 08:24:18)

Painless

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Hi,

Thunar is not really my thing.  Does this help? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … me_Manager

Edit: Also found this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … _locations

Last edited by Painless (2015-04-12 10:01:20)

yorrd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autofs and my nfs drive

Well thanks a bunch for your help guys, I basically got all I needed. I guess I'll ust use bookmarks for now, that should work fine. Again, thanks a lot, saved me a lot of trouble

Last edited by yorrd (2015-04-12 10:36:01)