HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Administrator's Guide, August 2003

Installing, Conﬁguring, and Using the HP CIFS Client

More on Mounting CIFS Filesystems

In addition to the mount command discussed in the previous section,

which was used to explicitly create a single mount, there are other

methods to manage the mounting of CIFS ﬁle systems. See the reference

for mount_cifs and umount_cifs in Chapter 4 for syntax details not

contained in this section.

Using /etc/fstab

By creating entries in /etc/fstab you can mount CIFS ﬁlesystems

automatically at boot time, or mount multiple CIFS ﬁle systems on one

or more CIFS Servers, with a single command entered manually. The

format for such entries is:

server:/share mount_point cifs defaults 0 0

Then, to mount all CIFS entries in /etc/fstab manually, enter:

$ mount -aF cifs

To unmount all currently mounted CIFS ﬁlesystems, enter:

$ umount -aF cifs

These commands will occur automatically, at bootup and shutdown, if

the system is conﬁgured to start the CIFS Client at bootup, as explained

above.

NOTE Automounting a CIFS ﬁlesystem using the HP ONC+ AutoFS service is

only supported on HP-UX release 11i version 2. For HP-UX release 11.0

and 11i, attempting mount CIFS ﬁlesystems via AutoFS may cause hung

processes to remain in the system process table and may make the

mount point directory inaccessable

How to Mount and Login in One Step

The root user has the option to mount a CIFS ﬁlesystem and login to the

CIFS Server in one step, obviating the need to explicitly issue the

cifslogin command. Using the names from the examples above: