Linux: Automount Windows or Samba shares
AUTOFS_IOC_EXPIRE_MULTI: This is similar to AUTOFS_IOC_EXPIRE except that it causes notification to be sent to the daemon, and it blocks until the daemon acknowledges. The argument is an integer which can contain two different flags. AUTOFS_EXP_IMMEDIATE causes last_used time to be ignored and objects are expired if the are not in use. Mount Various File Systems with Autofs on Mac OS X Jul 23, 2013 How to Mount a Windows Share in Linux - Putorius SMB vs CIFS vs SAMBA. SMB (Server Message Block) is a protocol used for network file sharing. It was originally designed at IBM in the 1980's. CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a implementation of SMB that was created by Microsoft. SAMBA is an open source software suite and set of utilities used by UNIX/Linux to communicate with Microsoft Windows systems.
Ldapwiki: Autofs
Sep 25, 2007 Auto-mounting an NFS share using autofs
May 28, 2020
I want to mount a samba share with autofs. srv.xxxxxxx.net is the samba server (proxmox container, Debian 10) ldap2.xxxxxxx.net is the openldap (proxmox container, Debian 10) gui.xxxxxxx.net is the client (proxmox vm, Ubuntu 18.04) Samba runs in standalone mode (no active directory) The share is /srv/test