autofs

  1. Bug #393012
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 393012

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Neil Broadley (scaine) wrote : Re: smb: Error while copying file, "Invalid argument"

And is your share read-only? That's the issue I'm experiencing with autofs. I'd appreciate it if you could confirm this bug if so.

However, I don't think anyone is now tracking this bug. I added the "affects project" for autofs too late after the relevant gvfs issues were fixed. Combined with this bug report :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/211631
which outlines how Karmic is unable to shutdown/restart gracefully when samba shares are specified in /etc/fstab, we now have the depressing situation whereby Karmic is unable to automatically create shares to samba.

And this bug :
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gnome-mount/+bug/388444
which highlights that gvfs shares aren't automatically mounted appears to be dead too. I don't consider gvfs in its current state as much use for a networked PC. My only option at the moment is to consider abandoning samba and implementing NFS instead, although that's not an option I can take at my workplace.

I only have Karmic on one of my boxes. If I ever decide to install it beyond that, I'll probably raise additional bugs on this issue. For the moment, I've lost motivation.