I've retested this with autofs 5.1.5 (eoan), and @ahasenack's suggested change to auto.smb is definitely required. With the $ escaped, mount fails as it's given a literal \$ in the path.
For older versions of autofs, the following workaround works (tested with autofs 5.1.2 on bionic): /etc/default/autofs: # Use OPTIONS to add automount(8) command line options that # will be used when the daemon is started. # OPTIONS="-Ddollar='$'" /etc/auto.smb: @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ loc = $2 # Enclose mount dir and location in quotes # Double quote "$" in location as it is special - gsub(/\$$/, "\\$", loc); + gsub(/\$$/, "$dollar", loc); gsub(/\&/,"\\\\&",loc) print " \\\n\t \"/" dir "\"", "\"://" key "/" loc "\"" } -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1680224 Title: auto.smb fails on Windows administrative shares To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/1680224/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs