Mount samba shares with kerberos+auto fs on Debian 8 Jessie

Install autofs and cifs

apt-get install autofs cifs-utils

Configure auto fs

nano /etc/auto.master

+dir:/etc/auto.master.d
/mnt/files                /etc/auto.files           --ghost,--timeout=30
+auto.master

nano /etc/auto.files

#samba shares
share1    -fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,uid=${UID},cruid=${UID}                         ://samba_server/share1
share2    -fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,uid=${UID},cruid=${UID}                         ://samba_server/share2
#homes
*                   -fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,uid=&,cruid=&                           ://samba_server/&

systemctl restart autofs

Test

Your kerberos ticket should be valid (check with “klist”, or else do “kinit loginname”). Browse to /mnt/files with the files explorer, you shoud see share1 and share2. Browse to /mnt/files/loginname, you shoud see your private samba folder.

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