cyberz.org » Samba http://www.cyberz.org/blog Andrea Leofreddi's homepage Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:19:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Using samba with autofs on Fedora 9 http://www.cyberz.org/blog/2008/09/07/using-samba-with-autofs-on-fedora-9/ http://www.cyberz.org/blog/2008/09/07/using-samba-with-autofs-on-fedora-9/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:55:54 +0000 andrea http://www.cyberz.org/blog/?p=26 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

Using autofs this can be accomplished easily following these steps:

  1. Set /auto under the control of autofs adding this line to /etc/auto.master:

    /auto            /etc/auto.auto    --timeout=5 --ghost

  2. Point directory to a samba share //server/share in /etc/auto.auto:

    directory -fstype=cifs,credentials=/etc/smb.auth ://server/share (directory is a child directory of /auto)

  3. Store access credentials to the samba share in /etc/smb.auth:

    username=yourusername
    password=youpassword

  4. Secure the password file:

    # chmod 600 /etc/smb.auth

  5. Start autofs:

    # /etc/init.d/autofs start
    Starting automount: [ OK ]

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