/mnt/smb /etc/auto.smbfs --timeout=120
Inside /etc/auto.smbfs (make it executable (chmod +x /etc/auto.smbfs)):
* -fstype=autofs,-Dhost=& file:/etc/auto.smb.sub
And inside /etc/auto.smb.sub, you have a few choices:
If you want to set the uid and gid of the credentials accessing the CIFS share (this defaults to read only):
* -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/cifssecret.txt,uid=101,gid=101 ://${host}/&
otherwise:
* -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/cifssecret.txt,rw ://${host}/&This will let you connect to any samba server or windows server on the mount point
/mnt/smb/servername/share_name
Of course, if you want to hard code the CIFS server name and share:
* -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/cifssecret.txt,rw ://mycifsserver/the_share_you_want
Inside /etc/cifssecret.txt:
username=yoursambaOrCIFSuser
password=yourcifspassword
chown root /etc/cifssecret.txt
chmod 400 /etc/cifssecret.txt
restart autofs:
sudo /sbin/service autofs restart
And do a listing of some server on that share:
ls /mnt/smb/myWindowsServer/share1
