auto_smb problem

[loxxol]

Hi all,

Long time reader - first time poster.

Just curious if anyone else is experiencing an issue with auto_smb mount-points in /Volumes disappearing?

on my late 2011 MBA (ML 10.8.5) i have 2 mount-points, for reference sake:

/Volumes/a
/Volumes/b

and two SMB shares mounted via auto_master / auto_smb - all working fine.

On the cMBP, i had the same set-up, however, since upgrading to Mavericks, the mount-points seem to be removed on reboot.

so, pre-reboot /Volumes/a & /Volumes/b exist, and post reboot they're removed - which ultimately causes the auto_smb to silently fail (and of course unable to manually mount with 'sudo automount -vc' until the mount-points are re-created).

Am i missing something...?

 

[Pagemakers]

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[loxxol]

There wis something in the back of my mind the /Volumes has some funky permissions, that by default, don't allow you to create (permanent) directories....

Can anyone recall the runes needed to change this default behaviour? I was sure i had a note somewhere about it but darned if i can't find it now.

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[finnmaccool]

Just went through this myself; turns out that mount in Mavericks now requires the mountpoint exist as a directory before the auto_smb mounts will work (previously it created the mountpoint directories if needed).

I've got a "remount" bash function that I use to remount shares (b/c they seem to disappear now & again).

It used to read:

# automounts are accessible only to the user who first accesses them (not mounts them, thankfully)
# but sometimes they timeout & unmount, and then my user account loses access.  This fixes that.
remount() {
  sudo umount -f /Volumes/media
  sudo automount -vc # reload from the automounts file
}

now it reads:

remount() {
  sudo umount -f /Volumes/media
  [ -d /Volumes/media ] || sudo mkdir /Volumes/media
  sudo automount -vc # reload from the automounts file
 }

and that fixes the problem. Once the directories exist, future reboots should automount correctly as well though I haven't tested it.

 

[Pagemakers]

All too complex for people like me (and millions of others). NAS drive arriving tomorrow. Mavericks sharing fail!