auto.smb is a script not a regular auto mounter file. It kind of works like the <a href="http://auto.net">auto.net</a> but for SMB services.<br><br>- Jamie<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
A Yagi</b> <<a href="mailto:ayagi@scripps.edu">ayagi@scripps.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jamie Bohr wrote:
<br>> I am looking for document ion on how to use auto.smb. I turned it on<br>> through the auto mounter and was able to see remote shares, just not<br>> access them. I can do "ls /smb/nas" and get a list of shares. However
<br>> I can not access those shares. I have read the man page for<br>> mount.cifs. It says to set environment variable called USER and<br>> PASSWD. I have set both. I am able to mount via mount -t cifs ... Is
<br>> there something I am missing? I have googled this and am having a hard<br>> time finding information on it. The idea is mount the CIFS share as the<br>> user who tried to access it. It would nice if it works more like NFS in
<br>> that UIDs would get mapped correctly.<br>><br>> Maybe after I get this working I will change auto.smb to mount shares to<br>> /smb/<hostname>/<user name> for many people can mount the same share but
<br>> with their credentials.<br>><br>> --<br>> Jamie Bohr<br>><br><br>Suppose you are trying to mount //winbox/sharename, add this line (note<br>it is one line) to the autofs map file.<br><br>winbox -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm,user=zzzzz,pass=xxxxxx,workgroup=yyyy
<br>://winbox/sharename<br><br>This setup has been working for a long time. However, one of our Fedora<br>Core machines started having a system crash problem as soon as the<br>kernel was updated to 2.6.18. Thinking it was a kernel-related issue, I
<br>submitted a bug to RedHat but Dave Jones stated it was a bug in nvidia.<br> I then reported to nvidia forum but this went unanswered. Finally, I<br>sent a bug report to the samba/cifs bugzilla because the system does not
<br>crash as far as I do not do any cifs mount. Steve French pickup up my<br>bug report and is looking at it now.<br><br>Akemi<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com
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