There should be an /etc/auto.smb already, use that, and add the following line to /etc/auto.master:
/cifs /etc/auto.smb --timeout=60
Now all cifs shares will show up under /cifs:
ls /cifs/<server>
will show all the shares available. You might want to put some options in /etc/auto.smb to mount with specific modes. I have a auto.smb that I found out there somewhere and modified to do exactly that:
#!/bin/bash
# $Id: auto.smb,v 1.3 2005/04/05 13:02:09 raven Exp $
# This file must be executable to work! chmod 755!
key="$1"
credfile="/etc/auto.smb.$key"
opts="-fstype=cifs,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=eng,gid=eng"
smbclientopts=""
for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
do
if [ -x $P/smbclient ]
then
SMBCLIENT=$P/smbclient
break
fi
done
[ -x $SMBCLIENT ] || exit 1
if [ -e "$credfile" ]
then
opts=$opts",credentials=$credfile"
smbclientopts="-A "$credfile
else
smbclientopts="-N"
fi
$SMBCLIENT $smbclientopts -gNL $key 2>/dev/null| awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -F'|' -- '
BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 }
/Disk/ {
if (first)
print opts; first=0
dir = $2
loc = $2
# Enclose mount dir and location in quotes
# Double quote "$" in location as it is special
gsub(/\$$/, "\\$", loc);
print " \\\n\t \"https://serverfault.com/" dir "\"", "\"://" key "https://serverfault.com/" loc "\""
}
END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }
'
This will do what you want. I’ve used it myself.