cifsmount and automounter

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

Hi,

is it possible to use the automounter to mount a nt share using cifs?
What have i to enter in my a (indirect) automounter map and how can i specify the domain for authorizing.

Heiner

[Mark Vollmers]

Heiner-

I have my cifs client setup to automatatically mount our nt shares on boot or when a mount -a command is sent. I don't have automount running, though, so I don't know if that changes anything, but this might help you get started.

I had the problem of mounting automatically (wouldn't validate), and here is what I ended up doing. (search for cifs and vollmers)

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x48e9ff77de2bd611abd50090277a778c,00.html

Mark

[sven verhaegen · Accepted solution]

hello

unfortunately CIFS and NFS are not the same thing though they do the same things , it is true that NFS has a TCP version but you cannot mountCIFS filesystems ona NFS client , the automounter of HP is writen to work with and even on top of the NFS protocol implemented with HP-UX so even if you have exports from a CIFS server and have a CIFS9000 installed on the client the HP9000 automounter wouldn't know how to handle it's protocol... I have no idea if CIFS has a automounter-like program available but perhasp you can find that info on the net , there is enough data on CIFs and it's implementation

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

Hi,

i do not need this mount all the time, that's the reason i mentioned to use the automounter (like linux can do it with his autofs if smbfs is used). And unfortunately HP-UX does not know a noauto- and user-options in the fstab. Because it's a wan connection to a server at a different city i will not have a permanent mount. So i think i have to write a script a user may execute to mount and umount this nt share.

But thanks for your help.

Heiner