scripts/tank-automount.sh (run on the Mac, password on stdin) adds a /-
direct map and root-owned /etc/auto_smb pointing at //Administrator@
192.168.0.173/tank with soft. Mounts on first access, unmounts idle, so
the laptop can leave the LAN without hung Finder or login dialogs.
Findings baked in:
- macOS automount does not create direct-map trigger dirs -> mkdir -p
- automounted fs are always nobrowse (man auto_master): shows as a
folder, not a Locations drive -> Finder Favorite (manual-checklist)
- no-tty sudo ticket is per parent pid: sudo inside $(...) fails, so the
idempotency check is a pipeline (sudo cmp -s -)
- SMB over NFS: Mac seth is uid 501; SMB force user=root matches /mnt/Z
Also: checklist Gitea key -> id_ed25519_homelab; the smb://.../tank
'user seth' step was wrong (no such Samba user) and is now the automount.
Wired into run.sh. Verified: mount, root-owned write, two all-[skip] reruns.
Not yet verified across a reboot (FileVault).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
networksetup -removenetworkservice fails on the sole PPP-port service and
aborted the whole run at exit 4 (before pmset/backup agent). Both it and the
GUI-domain launchctl bootstrap (flaky over SSH) are now best-effort with a
warn; the LaunchAgent plist auto-loads at next login regardless.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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