Enhanced AutoFS Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering AutoFS
Support for HP CIFS Client
Chapter 356
Support for HP CIFS Client
To enable the automatic mounting and unmounting of CIFS file systems,
Enhanced AutoFS supports integration with HP CIFS Client. To enable
this feature, you must install and configure HP CIFS Client on the
system along with Enhanced AutoFS. For more information on the CIFS
Client installation and configuration, see HP CIFS Client
Administrator’s Guide.
Enhanced AutoFS supports only the automatic mounting of the CIFS file
systems with the direct and indirect maps; it does not support CIFS file
system mounts with special or executable map files, or with multiple
(replicated) servers.
To use AutoFS with HP CIFS Client, perform the following steps:
1. Set the file system type mount option, fstype, to cifs in all the
CIFS file system mount entries of the AutoFS direct and indirect
map files.
2. The remote system and directory of the CIFS file system mount
entries must be a CIFS server and a share exported by the CIFS
server, for example, cifsSrv:/share.
3. Enable the user authentication to the CIFS Server so that users can
have access to the mounted CIFS file systems. The options for
authentication methods are as follows:
• Supply a user name and password in the CIFS mount entry of
the direct or indirect map file.
• Enable one of the following CIFS Client automatic login options:
— Store CIFS user password in the CIFS Client database.
— Enable guest user support, where all unauthenticated users
are automatically logged on as same guest user.
— Integrate with PAM NTLM cache.
— Integrate with system Kerberos cache (kinit(1) and PAM
Kerberos).
For more information on CIFS authentication, see Chapter 3 of HP
CIFS Client Administrator ‘s Guide.