Using samba with autofs on Fedora 9

Mount a samba share on the fly without having it mounted statically at boot via the /etc/fstab file can bring you the advantage of an unpainful boot in case of unavailability of the samba server like in the following common scenarios:

• laptop: you mount your pc share at home, but when you move it becomes unavailable
• workstation: you mount the share of your workmate – but when he/she goes on holiday his/her workstation stays off

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