Automounting is not working! Help!!!

[waterman]

Hi there.

I’ve had automounting of my sharepoints working before with my setup here, but now things have stopped automounting, and it’s really starting to tick me off.

I have several share points set to automount in the Shared Items folder for users logging in on to our systems via network logins. When they try to access items in that folder, they see the folders that are set to share (ie, ‘Vault,’ ‘Producers,’ ‘Support,’ etc…), but there is nothing in those folders (zero items reported). Furthermore, the amount of space left in those folders is the amount of space left on the local hard drive, not the amount left on the server.

So, the sharepoints aren’t automounting and I need to figure out why that is.

Any help would be most appreciated!

[waterman]

Thanks Joel…

I read your excellent article on setting up network logins, and I realized that I did not have guest access turned on. That’s so weird! Why do we have to do that? Is that setting just named badly? What is that doing when we set it to enable guest access?

Thanks for your input. I’ve pretty much got it going now thanks to your advice.

ps: I’m also setting up a shared Font volume mounted statically in /Network/Fonts via NFS. One question I had: If I configure a shared item to mount via NFS does the Xserve need to reboot to make that change take effect? I had one of the 240GB RAID arrays set to share via NFS and it didn’t show up until a reboot that I did while upgrading to 10.2.2. Is there a way to kill the NFS daemons and restart NFS without rebooting the system?

Thanks again!

[Miles]

I was reading a thingy in the Apple discussions re: network applications and network library folders that might help your situation with fonts: if you put your shared fonts in the /Network/library folder that automounts, your users should be able to access them automagically. If you are in prepress, you might not want to do that because you have too many fonts, but it might be worth a try.

[url=http://discussions.info.apple.com/[email protected]@.599ef696]Here’s the link[/url].

Miles

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