On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Toralf Lund wrote:
I known that I might use mount.cifs and related "fstab" entries as an alternative, but its password handling seems a lot less convenient.
If you're in an AD environment, you can probably do nicely with mount.cifs:
sec=krb5,multiuser
That way you don't have to deal with usernames/passwords at all.
jh