On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote: > Care to explain those two. direct versus indirect mapping? > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: >> Another thing you may want to consider is use of 'direct map' instead >> of 'indirect map'. If I remember correctly, it works well with cifs >> mounts, too. I'm sure you can find nice documentations that explain the two mapping methods. Just briefly, With 'direct map', you can mount virtually at any point because it uses absolute paths. In some situations (like mounting directly under /), 'direct map' is the only option for autofs. In /etc/auto.master, you add a line similar to: /- /etc/auto.direct And in /etc/auto.direct, you may have: /mounthere -fstype=cifs,rw,blah ://machine/share Akemi