Package: autofs
Version: 4.1.4-7
autofs has always refused to mount smbfs correctly at boot time. I thought it
was some weird problem, since right after starting the system, i could do an
/etc/init.d/autofs restart and smbfs partition would be mounted correctly
(using "sudo"). But today I just came up to think that maybe it was because it
was trying to access samba as root. And hey, I was right! I suggest the
/etc/init.d/autofs was run as a special "samba" user.
As a quick walkaround I have done the following to make my life easier while no
official fix exists. So all that people sufffering from my same problem can
jsut do the same as I did:
1) Make sure you have the following non-debian-standard-packages installed:
sudo smbfs autofs
2) Add the following to the beggining of /etc/init.d/autofs (right after the
legal stuff) ->
# This is a walkaround for autofs to work with smbfs from the boot moment
# smbfs doesn't like being mounter by root, so let's hide it
test x$AUTOFSRUNNING != xyes && case "$1" in
start|restart|force-reload|reload)
test $UID -eq 0 && exec su samba -c "AUTOFSRUNNING=yes sudo
/etc/init.d/autofs restart"
exit $?
;;
esac
3) Add the following to /etc/sudoers ->
samba ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/autofs
4) Run the following command (as root) ->
useradd -g samba samba
if the above fails, just do ->
useradd samba
And that's it. It should work from the very boot time on next system restart.
I hope that helped.
Greets and please fix this properly!
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