Cifs/smb mount with hidden credentials

I strongly advise against using fstab to mount network shares as your system may hang if network is not available for some reason - and believe me - you don’t want that.

This is a utility script using gio to mount

This is an example on how to create a mount/automount set of units

Technically you create a file with the credentials e.g. /etc/samba/credentials

user=$SMBUSER
password=$SMBPASS
workgroup=$WORKGROUP

Then you supply that file in the mount options

//server/share cifs /mountpoint/sharename  rw,_netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/credentials

More resources - search the Tutorials section using samba keyword

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