smbfs automount authentication?

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Thu Apr 13 16:27:14 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 13:11 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I notice autofs can use smbfs, but how is automount going to get a password
> to feed to smb for the mount?

	Being one of the former maintainers of smbmount and smbfs for the Samba
team, I would like to say that you should not be using smbfs.  It's been
largely deprecated and supplanted by cifs.  If it don't work and breaks,
you've got no support.

	Mike
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