samba_automount_for_systems_with_vpn_access_to_samba_server [pswiki]

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====== samba automount for systems with vpn access to samba server ======
lets suppose your user id is ''1000'' and your home directory is ''/home/mike'' and we have a samba share on ''my.server.at.home'' which is only reachable internally in your home LAN or through a vpn connection which you have set up on your laptop. the share name is ''Data'' and you want to mount it to ''/home/mike/Data'' via ''cifs''. since you are only sometimes connected to the vpn, it should automount as soon as you want to access it, which should succeed if you are connected to the VPN or to your local LAN. 

in ''/etc/fstab'' add the following line: 
  //my.server.at.home/Data              /home/mike/Data cifs     credentials=/home/mike/.smbcred,username=mike,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,noauto,users,nofail,vers=1.0   0 0

and create a file ''/home/mike/.smbcred'' with your login credentials in the following format:
  username=mike
  password=totallySecretPassword
now change access permission to make sure only mike can read it: 
  chmod 600 /home/mike/smbcred

it should probably suffice to reload  your systemd config, if that does not work, try to reboot
  systemctl daemon-reload

now whenever you are in your VPN or LAN you can just open ''/home/mike/Data'' and cifs will auto-mount