Frank Thommen wrote:
Guy Boisvert wrote:
Hi,
It make senses if you're running a box headless (it will be headless soon, now i'm testing it with K+V+M attached). We're using a CentOS box to plug USB Flash drive & external hard drive into it. The CentOS box is then used to FTP the content of these external drives to a Winblows box, all that filtered by a firewall between the 2 boxes. Only FTP is allowed.
Doing some tests on the CentOS box, i saw that if i log into the console, then the local session and the remote VNC sessions will see the drives automounted. If i log out of the console, then the VNC session won't see anything. It's like the automount works only if somebody is logged at the console.
I assume that with "console" you mean X11/desktop manager. In this case Gnome or KDE handle the mounting of removable devices for you. The automounter hasn't anything to do with it.
Yes, X11/DM, logged locally on the "physical" console. Thanks for the hint on automount.
If you want the automounter to handle removable devices, then you'll have to add appropriate automounter map entries. Something like
/etc/auto.master: /media /etc/auto.media
/etc/auto.media: usb :/dev/sda1
or you could use a program map like the following (not my invention, I took this from the autofs mailing list):
#!/bin/sh if ntfs-3g.probe /dev/sda1; then echo "-fstype=ntfs-3g,other-opts :/dev/sda1" else echo "-fstype=vfat,other-opts :/dev/sda1" fi
You'll probably find other examples on the net.
I'm not sure if such an automounter setup collides with Gnome/KDE automounting.
Cheers
frank
Thanks for your help Frank.
The problem i have is that it won't necessarily be the same devices plugged to this box and the user could even plug many devices at the same time.
So i read many articles on the net but i'm kinda lost about where to start for this problem.
Anyway, i'm still reading an thanks again for your help!
Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc.