Re: auto.smb mounting

[A Yagi <ayagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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