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2. Create map file with one mountpoint per line
 
2. 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
 
  # echo "desiredmountpoint -fstype=cifs,rw,username=mysmbuser,password=mysmbpwd,uid=myuser,gid=mygroup ://hostname/directory" >> /etc/auto.somename
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To force a specific CIFS/SMB version use the following syntax
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# echo "desiredmountpoint -fstype=cifs,rw,username=mysmbuser,password=mysmbpwd,uid=myuser,gid=mygroup,vers=2.0 ://hostname/directory" >> /etc/auto.somename
  
 
3. Add mapp file to master map (default timeout is 15min/900sec)
 
3. Add mapp file to master map (default timeout is 15min/900sec)

Latest revision as of 01:28, 19 February 2018

Instructions:

1. Install autofs

$ sudo apt-get install autofs

2. 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

To force a specific CIFS/SMB version use the following syntax

# echo "desiredmountpoint -fstype=cifs,rw,username=mysmbuser,password=mysmbpwd,uid=myuser,gid=mygroup,vers=2.0 ://hostname/directory" >> /etc/auto.somename

3. Add mapp file to master map (default timeout is 15min/900sec)

# echo "/mnt/anyexistingdir    /etc/auto.somename    --timeout 3600" >> /etc/auto.master

4. Restart the autofs daemon and check if it is working

$ sudo /etc/init.d/autofs restart

Notes:

  • There might be some troubles resolving the hostname of the Samba server. Using the IP address instead of the hostname helped in my case.
  • For more details regarding autofs, see here.