How to automatically mount a SMB/CIFS Share on CentOS

Introduction

In this tutorial, How to automatically mount a SMB/CIFS Share on CentOS.

Prerequisite

Install necessary packages

yum install samba-client samba-common

Automatically mount a SMB/CIFS Share on CentOS

Install the Automounter

yum install autofs

Create a mount point

mkdir /data/cifs_share

Add an entry to the file /etc/auto.master, as follow:

/data/cifs_share /etc/auto.cifs  --timeout=600 --ghost

create the file /etc/auto.cifs:

share_data -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm,credentials=/etc/credentials.txt
    ://<Host Name>/<Folder Name>

Create /etc/credentials.txt file

username=DOMAIN/User
password=PASSWORD

Secure the credentials.txt file

chmod 0700 /etc/credentials.txt

Restart the automounter service

/etc/init.d/autofs restart

Confirm that the mount is being accessed correctly

mount

Conclusion

You have automatically mounted an SMB/CIFS Share on CentOS. I hope will this your helpful. Thank you for reading the DevopsRoles page!