Problem with mounting CIFS share with autofs on F7

[richi1801]

Hi,

when I try to mount a CIFS share using autofs I get the following message in /var/log/messages:

automount[10105]: open_mount: (mount):cannot open mount module cifs (/usr/lib/autofs/mount_cifs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

My autofs config looks like this:

auto.master

#
# $Id: auto.master,v 1.4 2005/01/04 14:36:54 raven Exp $
#
# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#
/misc   /etc/auto.misc
/net    -hosts

# begin added by me
/network   /etc/auto.network
# end added by me

#
# Include central master map if it can be found using
# nsswitch sources.
#
# Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as
# above) in the included master map any keys that are the
# same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes
# precedence.
#
+auto.master

auto.network

pwa    -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/smb.auth,noperm     ://salxdev1/pwa
junk   -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/smb.auth,noperm     ://salxdev1/junk

autofs, samba, samba-client and libsmbclient are installed.

This worked perfectly in FC5 but it seems that it doesn't in F7.

Does someone have the same problem? - or better: a solution?

greets Richi

[jhetrick62]

I don't use auto.fs, I just use a line in the fstab and set it to "auto" so that it mounts on every reboot or every "mount -a" command.

//192.168.0.53/downloads /mnt/kids cifs ro,user=jeff,users,auto,setuid 0 0

I believe that this works on my box.

Jeff

[richi1801]

Yes, it works for me.
I thought there would be a long timeout when the share is not available but it seems it isn't.

However, since I have a laptop it would be nice to mount the share on demand so I could plug and unplug the cable as I like and do not have to do a mount -a ...

I am just wondering why it worked in FC5 and does not work in F7.

I have already downloaded the autofs-5 source from the project site and there is no mount_cifs.c and no mount_smbfs.c in the modules/ subdir. So how does this work in FC5?

I think I'm going to install FC5 in a VirtualBox and check if the module is there in /usr/lib/autofs


Richi