auto.smb mounting

[Jamie Bohr]

auto.smb is a script not a regular auto mounter file.  It kind of works like
the auto.net but for SMB services.

- Jamie

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