/usr/local/bin/automount.sh: line 346: Error Reading File: about automount HOT 21 CLOSED

Your it.niemetz.automount.plist has an error, the entry <key>Mountlist</key> is missing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
       <key>Mountlist</key>
       <array>

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Thanks! That solved the error.

Unfortunately, I'm still stuck:

I'm trying to mount shares from a Synology NAS, SMB and AFP enabled and working well connecting manually. I think I have the syntax in the plist wrong?

bash-3.2$ /usr/local/bin/automount.sh -m
getPasswordFromKeychain failed (RC=44)
mount of repository failed (RC=64, RV=mount_smbfs: URL parsing failed, please correct the URL and try again: Invalid argument)
automount runned with errors.

My .plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Mountlist</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>Protocol</key>
			<string>smb</string>
			<key>Account</key>
			<string>sadrian</string>
			<key>Server</key>
			<string>192.168.0.100</string>
			<key>Share</key>
			<string>repository</string>
		</dict>
	</array>
</dict>
</plist>

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This works in terminal ...

mount_smbfs //[email protected]/repository ~/Volumes/repository

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The function getPasswordFromKeychain returns with an error, your keychain entry for this server is missing
Add the entry with calling
/usr/local/bin/automount.sh --addpassword --server=192.168.0.100 --protocol=smb

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Getting closer. Password is added. Mounting still fails:

bash-3.2$ /usr/local/bin/automount.sh --addpassword --server=192.168.0.100 --protocol=smb
Password: successfully added password to keychain.

bash-3.2$ /usr/local/bin/automount.sh -m
mount of repository failed (RC=64, RV=mount_smbfs: URL parsing failed, please correct the URL and try again: Invalid argument)

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Please turn on debugging again and post the results, but don't forget to clear out the password

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automount_debug_02.txt

Thanks for the reminder! 🙂

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Do you have any special characters in your password, eg. colons, slashes, double quotes, single quotes etc.?
This could be the problem

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Indeed! Spaces, slashes and punctuation marks. I will try to set the password again and escape the special characters tonight. I report back later.

Thanks for your help so far!

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Yes! Thank you Gerd!

First try in escaping the special characters didn't work – then I tried %20 for the spaces.

bash-3.2$ /usr/local/bin/automount.sh -m
repository mounted successfully
automount runned successfully.

Thank you for helping me through this!
May I spread the word about auto mount?

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I will take a look at the function getPasswordFromKeychain, maybe i can escape the password

Thank you!

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If I may ask one more time ...

I now tried installing on my second mac. I died everything as before, set the same password and now the script terminates with

bash-3.2$ /usr/local/bin/automount.sh -m
/Users/sadrian/Library/Preferences/it.niemetz.automount.plist or /Users/sadrian/Library/Keychains/login.keychain are missing
bash-3.2$ chown ${USER}:staff /usr/local/bin/automount.sh 

I checked twice for the scripts being in place and rights/ownership set correctly.
login.keychain-db is present in ~/Library/Keychains.

Verbose output is attached as .txt.
automount_debug.txt

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As stated, /Users/sadrian/Library/Preferences/it.niemetz.automount.plist and/or /Users/sadrian/Library/Keychains/login.keychain are missing/empty/unreadable
Check with
ls -lisa /Users/sadrian/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
and
ls -lisa /Users/sadrian/Library/Preferences/it.niemetz.automount.plist
for readability and that the files are not empty

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login.keychain doesn't exist. Only login.keychain-db.

How do I create that file?

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Well, for a test I copied login.keychain from my second Mac over – it works! But I feel a little uncomfortable with this approach. Could you advise me on howto create the file the right way?

In addition, system.log shows the following:

Feb 16 14:33:34 *** com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (it.niemetz.automount): The NetworkState key is no longer respected. Please remove it.
Feb 16 14:35:21 *** com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (it.niemetz.automount): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

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It seems that Apple changed the keychain file in macOS Sierra from login.keychain to login.keychain-db, if have to change my test
Sources:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/255134/keychain-issues-after-sierra
https://www.quernus.co.uk/2016/10/10/ssh-keychain-changes-macos-sierra/
https://macadmins.slack.com/archives/security/p1478793222005994

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If so, why would my other Mac have the old naming? Both machines run on Sierra, actual release and both are mostly stock configuration.

It works for me right now, but I hope you find the time to dig into this a little deeper. ;-)

Thanks again, Gerd!

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Changed the test in dev-Branch version 0.90.7

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Did you update one of the Mac's from an older release of OS X or is it a fresh installation?

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0.90.7 works!

I replaced automount.sh and deleted login.keychain.

Both machines had a fresh install on 10.11. It might be, that I had 10.12-beta running on the iMac (the first one) but I'm not sure.

Nice – automounting back to normal with added functionality!

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Glad i could help

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