$ cat /etc/auto.master | grep -v ^#
/smb    /etc/auto.cifs  --timeout=0 # 0 means "no timeout," otherwise "seconds."
+auto.master

#This tells automount to mount the CIFS files under /smb

$ cat /etc/auto.cifs | grep -v ^#
key="$1"
credfile="/etc/auto.smb.$key"
mountopts="-fstype=cifs,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,uid=$USER,gid=smb"
# Note: This gives everyone in the smb group access to $USER's mounted shares.
smbclientopts=""
SMBCLIENT=$(whereis -b smbclient | cut --delimiter=\  --fields=2)
if ! [ -x $SMBCLIENT ]
then
    echo No smbclient executable found. Have you installed samba? >2
    exit 1
fi
if [ -r "$credfile" ]
then
        mountopts=$mountopts",credentials=$credfile"
        smbclientopts="-A "$credfile
else
        smbclientopts="-N"
fi
$SMBCLIENT $smbclientopts -gL $key\
   | awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$mountopts" -F'|' -- '
        BEGIN   { ORS=""; first=1 }
        /^Disk[^$]*$/  { if (first) { print opts; first=0 };
                  sub(/ /, "\\ ", $2);
                  if (length($2)==1) sub(/ ^/, "", $2);
                  print " \\\n\t /" tolower($2), "://" key "/" $2 }
        END     { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }
        '

#The awk program creates the automount commands to mount each file share (ignoring any default shares) as /smb/<key>/<share_name>
#where (because we wanted it to) each share name is converted to lower case.

$ cat /etc/auto.smb.tss-1 | grep -v ^#
cat: /etc/auto.smb.tss-1: Permission denied
$ sudo cat /etc/auto.smb.tss-1 | grep -v ^#
Password:
username=PTrenholme
password=******** # Redacted: By company policy, passwords cannot be displayed in public.
domain=TSS

$ cat Scripts/MountSmb
#! /bin/bash

# Wait for the access point to become available
running=$(nm-tool eth1 | grep -r “*T.S.S.”)
while [ -z “$running” ];do
    sleep 5
    running=$(nm-tool eth1 | grep -r “*T.S.S.”)
done

# Access the shares to get them mounted
ls /smb/tss-1/* > /dev/null