Automounting Windows Shares with CIFS

Create an /etc/auto.master file with your automount entries, for example:

/home /etc/auto.home --timeout=600 # entries in /etc/auto.home mount to /home

/log /etc/auto.log --timeout=600
/apps /etc/auto.apps --timeout=600

Create an /etc/smbmounts/servername auth file= o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

username=winusername

password=winpassword

domain=windomain

Create /etc/auto.home /etc/auto.log and /etc/auto.apps or whatever you like based upon your requirements using the format below:

CIFS format of auto.parentfoldername i.e. auto.home to access via /home/unixmountname

uid and gid are the unix id's you want the folders mounted as

file_mode is the permissions on files and dir_mode would be same mask for directory level

rsize and wsize are for tuning read and write block sizes

unixmountname -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/smbmounts/servername,uid=908,gid=908,file_mode=0774,rsize=32768 ://servername/sharename

for example for the /home /etc/auto.home entry you would create a file /etc/auto.home and put entry like the following for pvalentino's home folder which is hosted on server named filesrv1:

pvalentino -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/smbmounts/filesrv1,uid=908,gid=908,file_mode=0774,rsize=32768 ://filesrv1/pvalentino

restart autofs with:

/etc/init.d/autofs restart

or

service autofs restart

cd to your new directory

cd /home/pvalentino

check logs if you get errors.

Major differences in syntax between smbfs and cifs are:

smbfs uses fmask and cifs uses file_mode

smbfs credentials file uses username=DOMAINusername while cifs uses username=username and domain=domain entries

man mount.cifs for more details on mount options that are available