[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting -- Configuring Autofs

This meeting is at our regular time and place. Everybody is welcome. What: NBLUG General Meeting Topic: Configuring Autofs Who: Kyle Rankin When: April 13, 2004 @ 7:30PM Where: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA. Details: Autofs is a kernel option that lets you automatically mount filesystems on your computer when you access them, and then automatically umount them when they are no longer used. When I was trying to figure out the best way to set up my removable usb drive, I ended up stumbling upon autofs as an excellent solution. After realizing the potential of it, and how configurable it is, I started setting it up to manage other mountpoints on my system. In this talk, I will discuss everything I set up, and how, including dynamically mounted cdroms, usb drives (including cameras), smb, ftp, and ssh mountpoints. If you (or somebody you know) might be interested in speaking to a friendly group of 25-45 people about something related to Linux or Open Source, please contact speakers(a)nblug.org. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org