mkautosmb autodiscovers the local SMB (Windows) network using smbclient, sets up an autofs configuration, and can optionally create a "virtual" directory hierarchy with symlinks. This makes the network completely transparent for all applications. Most of the smbfs/cifs mount options are supported.
| Tags | Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Mount options to CIFS have been fixed. Invocation of modprobe was added during the check for file system support. Discovery mode has been overhauled. It now uses nmblookup broadcast instead of smbtree.


Release Notes: The detection of supported filesystems was fixed.


Release Notes: Support for CIFS was added. Detection of autofs 4 was fixed.


Release Notes: This release fixes a problem with autofs 4.1.x, specifically trailing spaces in the mount file.


Release Notes: This release adds auto-discovery mode (using smbtree) and has some bugfixes.
Recent comments
31 Jul 2005 04:04
Re: smbclient 3.0
> Although mkautosmb doesn't automatically
> detect smbclient 3.0 correctly...
Incase anyone wondered, since 1.1.12 mkautosmb uses smbclient 3.x correctly if present. Previous comment is therefore obsolete.
18 May 2004 02:00
smbclient 3.0
Although mkautosmb doesn't automatically detect smbclient 3.0 correctly, it can be made to work quite easily:
1. Use the argument --no-syscheck. It will disable the checking of a working smbclient and thus enable mkautosmb to work with smbclient 3.0.
2. If the binary is named "smbclient3" alter the mkautosmb source to reflect this. The name of the binary occurs only once (on line 68 in v1.1.11).