hi there all - been looking for a way to automount my samba shares on my ubuntu client the same way windows does 'map network drives', ie instead of manually mounting through LinNeighborhood (my current way of mounting network drives).
my setup is:
server name: MYSERVER
shared drive: PHILIPS1
samba shares dont use login and password, they are open to all on home netowrk
following http://www.greenfly.org/tips/autofs.html i have added to /etc/auto.master this line:

and created an executable auto.smb with this lines:

restarted autofs but it there is nothing in /mnt
ls /mnt returns nothing
cd /mnt/philips1 returns:
bash: cd: /mnt/philips1: No such file or directory

what am i doing wrong?
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Seems to me like you're doing things the hard way. Is there a particular reason why you must use autofs? You could just add the shares you want to your fstab and let smbmount get them going whenever you turn the machine on.

ok there are few reasons why autofs
the main one is that my file server is not allways on and sometimes i start my server after the ubuntu client, whatsmore, this setup is also for my wife who is not so technically savvy and i wanted to replicate windows 'map network drive' facility as it is as simple as it gets. she needs to have a system where she does not worry about the order of starting machines and whenever she starts the file server it is immediately accessible through point and click. i understand that autofs provides this
second reason is that i dont like giving up when something isnt working, there many shortcuts and hacks but i once it proved to be problematic i would like to solve it.....

BTW i have raised the issue here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=389090
where you can find more details and how far i got