I am trying to automount cifs mounts on centos 6.3 and failing. I have the following
/etc/auto.master
/etc/auto.smb original unedited
/etc/auto.smb.fileshare {where fileshare is the name of the windows file server}
where username and password are the username and password for the credentials of the file server. I restart autofs and nada, no error no nothing. No error in /var/log/messages or any other file that I can find.
If I run the command
it asks for a password, I enter it the mount works. What am I missing in the autofs portion?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you

When I set up a couple windows automounts, I created a credentials file for the windows login. Verified it worked manually, then change the autofs.smb file to use the credentials file. I used /mnt/subdir mount points for the automounted shares.

Worked for me from Fedora 23 system.

please double check the version
Cent only supports the current minor version
that is CentOS 6.7

you are 5 minor versions and 3 years out of date
and missing 3 years of security updates

needs to state CentOS 6.7

I found a centos 7 system to work on. Currently I have
/etc/auto.master
/etc/auto.fileprint01
/etc/auto.smb.fileprint01
where uname and pword are the username and password of a valid account

Hi,

So now after restarting the autofs service by systemctl restart autofs, and then ls -l /mnt/cifs/soft, what is the output?

The /mnt/cifs dir is empty. I get nothing, not even an error.

Yea I figured it out. In the auto.master file I had to add the option "--ghost". Everything I read said it was optional, for me it was not.

Happy to hear you got it resolved. I'm gonna check my configuration and see if I used --ghost. The documentation for automount is "sparse"

Just looked, yep, I used that option too. I don't even know what it does.

according to what I've read is that it is supposed to make a place holder even when the share is not mounted. So if you are mounting a share to /mnt/Share --ghost will keep a dir for Share whereas if you don't use the option /mnt/Share will only exist when the share is mounted otherwise there will only be /mnt without a Share dir.

Thanks for the info!

no problem