On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 01:58:25PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: >> > Your current setup does not agree with the instructions. May I suggest >> > you follow the example in the wiki exactly as it is written? If you >> > confirm that works, you can replace the name etc to fit your >> > situation. >> > >> > Akemi >> >> Akemi: >> >> thanks for the reply! >> >> I was struggling with the instructions because some things are not >> defined, and left to the reader to figure out. Not blaming you, all the >> other instructions I saw have the same issue. but if, for example, there >> was a clear statement of how/where the name of the local mount point >> was defined I might have gotten it right, but as it is I had to guess. >> >> But I'll go do what you suggest and see what happens. >> >> thanks again! >> > > OK, I've got it working, and Akemi's suggestion helped me figure it out. > > This is in /etc/auto.master: > > /mnt /etc/auto.mnt > > and this is in /etc/auto.mnt: > > # > # mounts public and home shares on the NasBox. > # > . syno-public -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/root/.smbcred,defaults,uid=fredex,gid=fredex,noauto,users,exec,vers=3.0 ://nasbox/public > > syno-fredex -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/root/.smbcred,defaults,uid=fredex,gid=fredex,noauto,users,exec,vers=3.0 ://nasbox/home > > trying to access /mnt/syno-fredex, then, mounts my home directory on the > Nasbox there, and access of /mnt/syno-public mounts the public share from > the Nasbox there. > > It all makes sense now. > > thanks Akemi! > > PS, would it be worth documenting the systemd automount feature in the > same wiki article? Glad to hear you've got it working. Sure, your contribution to the wiki article is much appreciated. :) Akemi