Difference between revisions of "Automounting Samba shares using autofs"

Revision as of 12:28, 4 December 2015

Install autofs

$ sudo apt-get install autofs

Create map file with one mountpoint per line

# echo "desiredmountpoint -fstype=cifs,rw,username=mysmbuser,password=mysmbpwd,uid=myuser,gid=mygroup ://hostname/directory" >> /etc/auto.somename

Add mapp file to master map

# echo "/mnt/anyexistingdir    /etc/auto.somename" >> /etc/auto.master