marcusianlevine.cifs-mount

Mount CIFS network shared drive with Samba

Role Variables

A description of the settable variables for this role should go here, including any variables that are in defaults/main.yml, vars/main.yml, and any variables that can/should be set via parameters to the role. Any variables that are read from other roles and/or the global scope (ie. hostvars, group vars, etc.) should be mentioned here as well.

Required

domain: AD domain name e.g. example.domain.com
samba_share: Domain name of shared drive e.g. //my-cifs-share.example.domain.com/sharedfolder
samba_mount_user: Name of the domain user that will be used to authenticate against the shared drive during mount
samba_mount_pass: Password for samba_mount_user

Optional

samba_mount_path: Path at which the drive will be mounted (default: /share)
samba_user: Username of the user who will own the mounted drive (default: ansible_user_id)
samba_home: Home directory of samba_user (default: {{ ansible_env.HOME }})

Example Playbook

    - hosts: servers
      vars_files:
        - secrets/mysecrets.yml
      roles:
        - role: marcusianlevine.cifs-mount
          domain: example.domain.com
          samba_share: "//my-cifs-share.{{ domain }}/sharedfolder"
          samba_mount_user: myuser
          samba_mount_pass: "{{ vaulted_password_value }}"