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I have a fresh install of Centos 7. I cannot seem to auto mount an NFS share located on 192.168.254.105:/srv/nfsshare from the Centos client.

Mounting the share manually however, works perfectly.

/etc/auto.master has been commented out completely to simplify the problem, save for the following line:

/- /etc/auto.nfsshare 

/etc/auto.nfsshare holds the following line:

/tests/nfsshare -fstype=nfs,credentials=/etc/credentials.txt 192.168.254.105:/srv/nfsshare

/etc/credentials.txt holds:

 user=user
 password=password

The expected behavior is that when I ls -l /tests/nfsshare, I will see a few files that my fileserver's /srv/nfsshare directory holds.

It does not. Instead, it shows nothing.

The logs from sudo journalctl --unit=autofs.service shows this when it starts (debug enabled):

 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Automounts filesystems on demand...
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: Starting automounter version 5.0.7-48.el7, master map auto.master
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: using kernel protocol version 5.02
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: lookup_nss_read_master: reading master files auto.master
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered global options: (null)
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: spawn_mount: mtab link detected, passing -n to mount
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: spawn_umount: mtab link detected, passing -n to mount
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: lookup_read_master: lookup(file): read entry /-
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: master_do_mount: mounting /-
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: automount_path_to_fifo: fifo name /run/autofs.fifo--
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: lookup_nss_read_map: reading map file /etc/auto.nfsshare
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered global options: (null)
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: spawn_mount: mtab link detected, passing -n to mount
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: spawn_umount: mtab link detected, passing -n to mount
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: mounted direct on /tests/nfsshare with timeout 300, freq 75 seconds
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: do_mount_autofs_direct: mounted trigger /tests/nfsshare
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain automount[21204]: st_ready: st_ready(): state = 0 path /-
 Nov 20 00:25:38 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Automounts filesystems on demand.

The following appears in my logs when I attempt to force mounting of the nfs share via ls -l /tests/nfsshare:

 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: handle_packet: type = 5
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: handle_packet_missing_direct: token 21, name /tests/nfsshare, request pid 22057
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: attempting to mount entry /tests/nfsshare
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): looking up /tests/nfsshare
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): /tests/nfsshare -> -fstype=nfs,credentials=/etc/credenti...fsshare
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: parse_mount: parse(sun): expanded entry: -fstype=nfs,credentials=/etc/credentials.tx...fsshare
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: parse_mount: parse(sun): gathered options: fstype=nfs,credentials=/etc/credentials.txt 
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: [90B blob data]
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: dev_ioctl_send_fail: token = 21
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: failed to mount /tests/nfsshare
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: handle_packet: type = 5
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: handle_packet_missing_direct: token 22, name /tests/nfsshare, request pid 22057
 Nov 20 00:48:05 localhost.localdomain automount[22030]: dev_ioctl_send_fail: token = 22

Additionally, ls -l /tests/nfsshare actually produces the error:

 ls: cannot access nfsshare/: No such file or directory

How can I fix this issue? As stated before, manual mounting the share works fine.

EDIT: as requested, output of ls -la /etc/auto.nfsshare

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99 Nov 20 00:25 /etc/auto.nfsshare

I had the same problem.

Configuration is fine, but directory does not exist, although is seems created.

The solution in my particular case was that the file was an UTF-8 file, which autofs cannot read (that's why you get the Blob message in the logging).

Recreate the file, and make sure it is an ascii file.
After I changed that, everything worked flawlessly.

I haven't encoutered username/password protected NFS share so far.

Anyway, you can make good use of systemd features here (example for a basic NFS share you would want to mount in /tests/nfsshare).

192.168.254.105:/srv/nfsshare /tests/nfsshare nfs users,_netdev,x-systemd.automount 0 0