On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:02:05PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: Kenneth: thanks for the heads-up. I was stuck on looking for autofs tutorials, having forgotten (if I ever knew) that systemd had subsumed that feature. thanks again! Fred > On 6/8/2017 11:03 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I'm trying to set up autofs on my C7 netbook so I can automount a cifs > >share (actually two) from my NAS box, and because when I'm not at home > >I don't want it attempting to mount it. > > Automounting is now done through systemd. You just have to create > two "unit files" to describe the mount. One holds the information > for a static mount in fstab and the other is the automount entry > that launches the first when its mount point is accessed. > > http://blog.tomecek.net/post/automount-with-systemd/ > > So you'd need two files, mnt-syno\x2dfredex.mount and > mnt-syno\x2dfredex.automount, both in /etc/systemd/system. You'll > need an Options= clause in the .mount file for your CIFS mount > options. > > Note that the .mount file is not enabled, so it doesn't mount at > boot time. Enable the .automount file to start at boot and it will > start the .mount file on access. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------