after struggling with HOWTO Forge’s recipe and Fedora’s modification of the same recipe, CentOS provides some helpful info on how to set things up the easy way:

# yum install autofs cifs-utils
# mkdir /mnt/smb

Add this line to /etc/auto.master:

 

/mnt/smb /etc/auto.smb.top

Create /etc/auto.smb.top as:

 

* -fstype=autofs,-Dhost=& file:/etc/auto.smb.sub

Create /etc/auto.smb.sub as (adjust as needed):

 

* -fstype=cifs,credentials=/root/secret.txt,uid=500,gid=100 ://${host}/&

Now you can access by simply typing:

 

# cd /mnt/smb/winbox/getme