smbfs automount authentication?

[Tom Diehl]

Michael H. Warfield <mhw at WittsEnd.com> Wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 13:11 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > I notice autofs can use smbfs, but how is automount going to get a password
> > to feed to smb for the mount?
> 
>         Being one of the former maintainers of smbmount and smbfs for the Samba
> team, I would like to say that you should not be using smbfs.  It's been
> largely deprecated and supplanted by cifs.  If it don't work and breaks,
> you've got no support.

OK, I'll bite, What is the magic incantation to get the CIFS module to mount
a w2k ntfs partition? I can use CIFS for a w2k3 ntfs partition but I have never
succeeded in mounting a w2k NTFS partition.

Regards,

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