Automounting SMB filesystems using autofs

Because I just know I’m going to need this again in the future:

In /etc/auto.master:

/misc /etc/auto.misc –timeout=60

In /etc/auto.misc:

drive -fstype=smbfs,credentials=/etc/auto.smbcredentials ://host/share

In /etc/auto.smbcredentials:

username=username
password=xxxxxxxxx

Then…

# service autofs restart

and cding to /misc/drive should automount \host\share.

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