How to use Automounter with CDROM and other devices?

Hmmm, much bizarness that one is. I set mine up according to the

and it mounts right up. Fstab file has something to the effect of: "machine:/sharename /mountpoint nfs defaults 0 0" Or ya can mount from the command line "mount -t nfs machine:/sharename /mountpoint" and it'll hook right up. Or at least it should. All this, of course, is

Message-Id: <200011301657.eAUGvdX06234@gate.daniloff.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:57:38 -800 From: Alex Daniloff Subject: How to use Automounter with CDROM and other devices? Hello SuSE folkz, Could somebody enlighten me what should I define in /etc/fstab to be able to mount CDROM and other removable devices automatically. I already compiled automounter option in kernel but I need an example of fstab file to understand how to use it. Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks. Alex ------------------- directions predicated

on the fact that the exports are set up correctly on the host machine. I've never had it not work.

-----Original Message----- From: Guy Van Sanden [mailto:sienix@crosswinds.net] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 12:20 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Automounter

Hello

Is anyone here using the autofs module? I tried it, and it works for cdroms etc, but not for nfs shares.

And I just needed those actually...

A program I use requires that all its data is accessible via a global path: /net/<server>/<path>

Thanks for any help!

Kind regards

Guy

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