Automount share as non ROOT or SYSTEM user!

Apologies if someone already said this.

I was having this problem too. Here are the bad permissions on the mountpoint:

[bwood@ucbmbp ~]$ sudo ls -ld /Users/bwood/share

dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Dec 21 23:38 /Users/bwood/share

I resolved the root ownership of mountpoint on 10.7 like this:

1. as normal user create the mountpoint directory: mkdir ~/Linkstation

2. make the needed edits to /etc/auto_master and (in my case) /etc/auto_smb. My auto_smb contains

/Users/bwood/Linkstation -fstype=smbfs ://admin:PASSWORD@192.168.0.160/share

3. sudo automount -vc

[bwood@ucbmbp ~]$ sudo ls -ld /Users/bwood/Linkstation/

drwx------ 1 bwood wheel 16384 Nov 27 20:46 /Users/bwood/Linkstation/

[bwood@ucbmbp ~]$ ls Linkstation/

caroline monk trashbox voutcity

I tried creating the directories for mount points as a normal user. The autofs daemon would change the permissions for me....

I got NFS working properly. Added "locallocks" to the mount options. Here's a sample line:

Travis -rw,rwsize=1048576,vers=3,noatime,intr,soft,locallocks 10.1.0.2:/raid/Travis

Now the mounts work properly and don't disconnect constantly. I never did get SMB reliably working.

Looks like mine with "noowner" are working:

in /etc/fstab I have

192.168.89.105:/music /Users/Deborah/Shares/music url automounted,noowners,url==cifs://(username):(password)@192.168.89.105/music 0 0

and /etc/automaster has

I had to remove the entries from fstab, issue a sudo automount -vc to remove the mounts, then manually create the mount point at /Users/Deborah/Shares/music using mkdir music, then sudo chown Deborah:staff /Users/Deborah/Shares/music, then put the entries back in fstab, and do another sudo automount -vc to mount them again.

It's too early to say for sure whether this will last any length of time.

In Snow Leopard I didn't have the noowners option, and it worked fine. Must have broken when upgrading to Lion. With noowners, everything in the share is owned by the current user, which is fine for me since I don't rely on the user permissions within my NAS.

This works for me. I think the key is setting the mount point in your home directory instead of /Volumes/

my configs looks like this

I added this line to the end of /etc/auto_master:

/- auto_smb

and created the file /etc/auto_smb:

/Users/er0k/mount -fstype=smbfs,soft ://er0k:password@server/mount

surroscape wrote:

I think the key is setting the mount point in your home directory instead of /Volumes/

You don't want to know how many fights I've had with people who insist on using /Volumes. You made the right move, let Apple have what is theirs and you get the rest.

surroscape wrote:

This works for me. I think the key is setting the mount point in your home directory instead of /Volumes/

my configs looks like this

I added this line to the end of /etc/auto_master:

/- auto_smb

and created the file /etc/auto_smb:

/Users/er0k/mount -fstype=smbfs,soft ://er0k:password@server/mount

I had a problem with this as well. Apple must fix this! In the mean time, however, here is something that works on OSX 10.8.

Follow the procedure 'surroscape' suggested. However, on OSX 10.8 the shares will mount as root owner. To fix this run this:

sudo umount /mount/point

This will unmount that share. It should automatically remount with your user permissions automatically. I know, it's idiotic, but it works. Apple, FIX this!

The solution to this is to enable the Guest account in the NAS server with Read/Write permissions set for the volumes you try to share with AFP. If you use a personal home NAS this should not be a problem.

My NAS line in /etc/auto_master:

/automount/NAS auto_nas

and my /etc/auto_nas:

Netdisk -fstype=afp afp://192.168.1.1/Netdisk

# ls -als /automount/NAS/

total 2

2 dr-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 2 Aug 29 02:26 .

0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Aug 29 01:53 ..

0 drwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 330 Aug 29 02:21 Netdisk

I can confirm this works and is stable, even on Sierra - but it's a pretty frustrating outcome that you have to drop to unsecured read/write "guest" access for any volume you wish to auto mount!

I wonder if this would work better if the NAS and Mac used the same user directory for permissions?

No matter what I tried the autofs mounts would eventually be mounted as root. Possibly they are idling out and some root-user background process is trying to access them and this is causing the disks to be re-mounted as root.

Anyway inspired by another user's approach I wrote a small shell script with a plist file that runs it every 15 seconds to keep the disks mounted as the desired user.

See here - https://github.com/scotartt/shell_scripts

specifically : https://github.com/scotartt/shell_scripts/blob/master/fix_mounts.sh

and https://github.com/scotartt/shell_scripts/blob/master/org.autonomous.fixmounts.p list

The problem is fixed for me. Automount works again.

Here is what I did:

- deleted the old shared volume item in user startup items.

- deleted any entrys regarding the NAS (Synology) in the keychain.

PLUS:

- installed the latest cricial update for my Synology NAS (6.0.2 update 2)

Then:

restart Mac, connect to shared volume in finder with cmd+k, drag connected share into user startup items.

-> automount works again.

It would be better to use Autofs instead.

Bump. Having the same problem on 10.7.1. Please fix Apple.

So, how can we warn Apple about this issue?

I guess this is worth warning Apple about because the procedure worked on SL and it does not work on Lion. So they've probably messed up with something, I guess.