Notes on File AutoMounter

2 Nov, 2002 - GEST
	
Intro - 	The automounter daemon allows you to automagically mount file systems you don't use all the time.
For example, I only want to mount the CD player while there's a CD in it and I'm playing music.  Or, I may wish to have access to another PC via NFS or SAMBA but not want to permanently mount it.  Autofs does this for you.

Config -
	1.  Check it's installed via YasT2.  Check it's operational with 
		/etc/rc.d/autofs status

	2.  Edit the config files.  These are,
		/etc/auto.master
		/etc/auto.misc
		/etc/auto.mnt
	3.  AUTO.MASTER - This just maps mount points to files.
		A normal one has  lines like,
			/mnt            /etc/auto.mnt           -user,fstype=auto,timeout 60	
		Which just says, "go to file /etc/auto.mnt for all mount points hanging off /mnt"

	4.  AUTO.MISC - This is the only one I've played with,
	home            -soft,intr,nosuid               old.machine.ip.number:/home
	people          -fstype=smbfs,username=us,password=********,ip=some.ip.number       ://WIN_BOX/people
	data            -fstype=smbfs,username=us,password=********,ip=some.ip.number      ://WIN_BOX/data
	
  This lets a machine NFS mount old.machine to /misc/home, and mount WIN_BOX shares to /misc/people and /misc/data.