Setting up autofs....

2006-02-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am following the page at http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/127 on setting up autofs to work with udev, so flashdrives and card readers can be auto mounted. (Please note, automounting humbugs are not appreciated voicing their opinion in this thread. If you want to help me out

Re: setting up autofs

2001-03-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi robert to automount the floppy as a user... first check that the user can mount the floppy ( in /etc/fstab or manually entered options in /etc/auto.misc ... floppy -suid,user,fstype=vfat :/dev/fd0 have fun alvin http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html

Re: setting up autofs

2001-03-31 Thread Robert Voigt
It was not easy to find out that autofs works out of the box for floppy and cd. It's behavior is not intuitive at all. I also made symlinks from /floppy to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and the same for /cd. But this causes the cdrom drive to rattle everytime I go to / in Konqueror, and ls / hangs. Be

RE: setting up autofs

2001-03-29 Thread Kuhar, Mike
Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:08 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: setting up autofs > > > I installed autofs. I want it to automount the floppy, the > cdrom and a > couple directories on another machine via nfs. I just don't > want to type > moun

RE: setting up autofs

2001-03-29 Thread Ken Adams
ou do, just man autofs it is pretty simple, really :) > -Original Message- > From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:08 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: setting up autofs > > > I installed autofs. I wa

setting up autofs

2001-03-29 Thread Robert Voigt
I installed autofs. I want it to automount the floppy, the cdrom and a couple directories on another machine via nfs. I just don't want to type mount and umount everytime I access them (is autofs the right choice for this?). Unfortunately the manpages and the HOWTO aren't written for someone who