MacOS – OSX 10.9.5 automount AFP network volume

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I'm having problems getting automount to mount an AFP share at startup.

If I, as a non-root user, issue the following command from my terminal:

mount -t afp afp://user:pass@server/share-name ./share-mount-point

It works fine, and I can interact with the files.

I'm trying to do the same with automount. I've added the following to auto_master, and created auto_afp:

/etc/auto_master:

 /my/global/mount/point auto_afp

/etc/auto_afp:

 /my/global/mount/point -fstype=afp afp://user:pass@server/share-name

This fails. I see that /my/global/mount/point is created by root, in group wheel, but is empty.

When I run sudo automount -vc, the same thing happens. I get output like automount: /my/global/mount/point updated but there's no AFP share mounted there.

I'm not even sure where to start debugging here.

Best Answer

OK, I figured it out. The keys in the auto_afp file are paths that are relative to the path specified in the top-level auto_master file.

So if your /etc/auto_master has: my/global/mount auto_afp

Then your /etc/auto_afp should have: point -fstype=....

Finally to get visibility into what automountd is doing, add AUTOMOUNTD_TRACE=2 to /etc/autofs.conf, watch /var/log/system.log with tail -f, and start navigating around your mount points.

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