Re: correct format for mounting cifs/smbfs shares

[Jehan PROCACCIA <Jehan.Procaccia@int-evry.fr>]

For automounting smb/cif I use this:

$ tail -3 /etc/auto.misc
windowsshare    
-fstype=smbfs,username=mylogin,workgroup=myworkgroup,credentials=/etc/smbwindows.auth 
://winserver/share1
unixshare    
-fstype=smbfs,username=mylogin,credentials=/etc/smbunix.auth 
://sambaserver/mylogin

$ cat /etc/smbunix.auth
username=mylogin
password=secret

$ cat /etc/smbwindows.auth
username=mylogin
password=secret

$ cd /misc/windowsshare
[root@calaz /misc/windowsshare]
$ df .
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
//winserver/share1        858652672 122945536 735707136  15% 
/misc/windowsshare


However, as you can see, I need two smb*.auth files because my password 
is diffrent on both shares (windows/unix)
And the major problem is THE use of a smb.auth file where the password 
must be in clear text :-( . If someone knows how to automount cifs/smb 
FS without pre-entering the password ... The problem is that If I don't 
do that, autofs/mount won't prompt me to enter the password :-(
pehaps there's something to do with pamcred ... ?

thanks .

Jeff Moyer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I had a user report a bug as follows:
>
>---
>Description of problem:
>automount does not understand //hostname in its config files, which is needed by mount.cifs and mount.smbfs
>I found a "solution", but I don't like it:
>use \/\/hostname in /etc/auto.misc file
>
>
>Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
>autofs-4.1.3-114
>samba-client-3.0.14a-2.1.fc3.kde
>
>How reproducible:
>Always
>
>Steps to Reproduce:
>1. put following line in /etc/auto.misc file:
>share  -fstype=cifs                                                                                                     //HOST/SHARE
>(of course, I hope that you have host HOST with share SHARE and you can make
>mount -t cifs //HOST/SHARE /misc/share)
>
>2. ls /misc/share 
>  
>
>Actual Results:  in /var/log/messages:
>automount[1624]: mount(generic): failed to mount  (type cifs) on /misc/share/HOST/share
>
>Expected Results:  //HOST/SHARE mounted in /misc/share
>;-)
>
>Additional info:
>
>Same results with -fstype=smb
>---
>
>I have no experience with this.  What is the expected configuration to get
>this to work?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>
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