Description

A recipe that installs smbfs on linux hosts. It also includes a resource for mounting cifs shares and an attribute driven recipe managing smbfs mounts.

Requirements

Tested on Ubuntu 11.

Attributes

• node['smbfs']['mounts'] - A map that describes zero or more cifs mounts. Used to drive the attribtue_driven recipe.

Usage

There are two recipes provided:

• smbfs::default - Install the smbfs package.
• smbfs::attribute_driven - Invokes the smbfs::default recipe and then interprets the node['smbfs']['mounts'] attribtue and defines the resources for the mouts.

Resources

smbfs_mount

The smbfs_mount resource helps define a mount for a cifs share.

• path: the path on which to mout the share. This is the name of the resource.
• cifs_path: The url for cifs mount.
• username: The username if authenticated access required to cifs share. Defaults to nil.
• password: The password. Must be present iff username is present. Defaults to nil.
• option: Arbitrary key value pairs passed to mount.

The simplest example for mounting a share;

smbfs_mount '/mnt' do
  cifs_path '//san01.example.org/myshare$/Some/Path'
  username 'MyUser',
  password 'MyPass',
  options {'rw' => nil}
end

Attribute Driven Recipe

The simplest example for mounting a share;

node['smbfs']['mounts']['/mnt'] =
  {
    'cifs_path' => '//san01.example.org/myshare$/Some/Path',
    'username' => 'MyUser',
    'password' => 'MyPass',
    'options' =>
      {
        'rw' => nil
      }
  }

include_recipe 'smbfs::attribute_driven'