[Samba] samba and automount

[Christopher Barry]

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 11:10, Trey Nolen wrote:
> I'm running Samba with automount to automatically mount CDs in a server.
> These CDs need to be changed periodically, so I wanted to use automount so
> that they could be changed by the users fairly easily.  We use logon scripts
> to map the CDs to drive letters when users logon.  Unfortunately, it seems
> that having a drive mapped is treated like the drive is being used, so as
> long as there is someone logged into the system, automount will not unmount
> the drive.  The only way we can change the CDs is to have everyone log out,
> wait for the timeout (or unmount it manually), change the CDs and have
> everyone log back in.  Does anyone have a better way (one that will work)?
> 
> Trey Nolen
> 
> 
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read up on the root pre-exec and post-exec commands. When someone access
a share that points to a cd-rom drive, pre-exec can mount it (actually
it can run anything you want), and when they leave the share, it can
un-mount it. In other words, you can have it mounted only while someone
is actively accessing it.

Good Luck,
Christopher