samba - Jan 2004 - automounting a usb-harddrive/cdrom that can be mapped from the login script.

Hi,

I am installing a Samba 3.0.1 on RH90 for a little school, and they want 
to have access to a mobile usb-harddrive.
The harddrive shoud be mapped via the login script, and here is were my 
troubles begin....

I have been experimenting with the autofs service, which works great if 
the harddrive is present at login time.
If one login at a time where the harddrive isn't present the login 
script fails and the drive mapping isn't made.
Yes i know why... at login time the autofs generated directory doesn,t 
exist.

Then i made a directory (which get mapped) where autofs will generate a 
sub-directory for the connected device.
Now the problem is that autofs is not mounting the harddrive until a 
request is made to the non-existent directory (defined in the autofs 
conf. files).

Hopefully you get the picture. ;-)


Any one who have something like this working, or some hints.
I guess one would have the same problems when using the servers cdrom drive.



Best regards
Erik Holst Trans

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Hi

In the past I've had such a setup, if I remember correctly I was sharing
a supermount-ed cdrom drive, I remember when clients wanted to access
the cdrom even the tray got inserted. I think if you want to do it with
autofs the bes solution would be to create a symlink pointing to your
autofs created mount point and share that symlink. I'm not sure if it
will work.

Good Luck!

Geza

| Hi,
|
| I am installing a Samba 3.0.1 on RH90 for a little school, and they want
| to have access to a mobile usb-harddrive.
| The harddrive shoud be mapped via the login script, and here is were my
| troubles begin....
|
| I have been experimenting with the autofs service, which works great if
| the harddrive is present at login time.
| If one login at a time where the harddrive isn't present the login
| script fails and the drive mapping isn't made.
| Yes i know why... at login time the autofs generated directory doesn,t
| exist.
|
| Then i made a directory (which get mapped) where autofs will generate a
| sub-directory for the connected device.
| Now the problem is that autofs is not mounting the harddrive until a
| request is made to the non-existent directory (defined in the autofs
| conf. files).
|
| Hopefully you get the picture. ;-)
|
|
| Any one who have something like this working, or some hints.
| I guess one would have the same problems when using the servers cdrom
| drive.
|
|
|
| Best regards
| Erik Holst Trans
|
|
|

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