Comment 2 for bug 579857

I use the line "/lan /etc/auto.smb -gid=1000,uid=1000" to call auto.smb and mount the shares as the primary user. I found that I had to 'borrow' Karmic files when I upgraded to Lucid as the /etc/auto.* installed with Lucid didn't work. Rather than chase down the problem, I just restored the previous auto.master and auto.smb to get things going.

I was curious as to why the smb sample line was removed from auto.master.

One thing I need to check is if the root permissions bug, the one that requires the gid, uid options, is still there. Without those options, the shares get mounted unavailable to users.

The new auto.smb does not seem to use the credentials file option like the old one does. You can see in auto.smb where the options setup line is but I haven't tried using that for the uid,gid options, just mount options (like the credentials file for login). I note that there are some variations of auto.smb around for problems like these.