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autofs not mounting drives on Catalina

I'm attempting to use autofs to mount some network shares on Catalina. It does not appear to be even attempting to mount drives. I am not seeing any authentication requests on the NAS itself.


I added the below line to /etc/auto_master


/-      auto_smb        -nosuid,noowners,nofail
/-      auto_afp        -nobrowse,nosuid


In /etc/auto_smb, I have added:


/Music -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://<username>:<password>@<ipaddress>:/Music
/Video -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://<username>:<password>@<ipaddress>:/Video


Below are the results of trying to use the mounts:


iMac:Volumes gabe$ sudo automount -cv
automount: /System/Volumes/Data/home updated (/home -> /System/Volumes/Data/home)
automount: /System/Volumes/Data/Music updated (/Music -> /System/Volumes/Data/Music)
automount: /System/Volumes/Data/Video updated (/Video -> /System/Volumes/Data/Video)
automount: no unmounts
iMac:Volumes gabe$ cd /Video
-bash: cd: /Video: No such file or directory
iMac:Volumes gabe$ cd /System/Volumes/Data/Music/
-bash: cd: /System/Volumes/Data/Music/: No such file or directory


iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 15, 2019 6:09 AM

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Posted on Nov 17, 2019 1:13 PM

This should work if you modify the mount points in your auto_smb file to match the new Catalina filesystem structure:


/System/Volumes/Data/Music -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://<username>:<password>@<ipaddress>:/Music
/System/Volumes/Data/Video -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://<username>:<password>@<ipaddress>:/Video


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Nov 17, 2019 1:13 PM in response to catalinaaaaa

This should work if you modify the mount points in your auto_smb file to match the new Catalina filesystem structure:


/System/Volumes/Data/Music -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://<username>:<password>@<ipaddress>:/Music
/System/Volumes/Data/Video -fstype=smbfs,soft,noowners,nosuid,rw ://<username>:<password>@<ipaddress>:/Video


autofs not mounting drives on Catalina

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