[H-GEN] Auto mounting SMB shares

[Michael Anthon]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Michael Anthon <mca at tams.com.au>)

I have been trying to get the autofs system working under Linux (2.2.5).  So
far I have managed to get the mounting of local devices working correctly,
but am wondering if SMB mounts (from Windows NT/95/98) can be auto-mounted.
In the man page for autofs(5), they give the following example ...

>EXAMPLE
>        kernel    -ro,soft,intr       ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux
>         boot      -fstype=ext2        :/dev/hda1
>         windoze   -fstype=smbfs       ://windoze/c
>         removable -fstype=ext2        :/dev/hdd
>         cd        -fstype=iso9660,ro  :/dev/hdc
>         floppy    -fstype=auto        :/dev/fd0
>
>       In the first line we have a NFS remote mount of the kernel directory
on ftp.kernel.org.  This is mounted read-only.  The second line
>       mounts an ext2 volume on a local ide drive.  The third makes a share
exported from a Windows  machine  available  for  automounting.
>       The rest should be fairly self-explanatory.

Now, this shows a smbfs fstype, but I can't get this to work, I get the
following messages in my syslog

Jun  1 11:13:08 belial automount[916]: attempting to mount entry
/pippin/installers
Jun  1 11:13:09 belial automount[11546]: cannot find mount method for
filesystem smbfs

It seems to me that some vital information is missing anyway (such as a
username and password to use when trying to connect).  Does anyone if this
is possible, and if so, how? 

Thanks
Michael A.

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