autofs has undocumented dependency on cifs-utils

[Ron Young]

root@mediacenter:/usr/share/squeezeboxserver# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
autofs5:
  Installed: 5.0.5-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 5.0.5-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.5-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

On a fresh install of natty, I was trying to automount a SMB share.
Following the documentation, I was still unable to get the share to
mount (kept failing with various messages: No username...
or
mount wrong fs type)

In researching this problem I came across a reference to smbfs.
Once I installed smbfs, things started working.

I suggest that a dependency for smbfs be added to the autofs
package.

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

@Ron, Thanks for raising this bug.

Setting importance to low as it has an easy work around.

This issue still needs to be reproduced to be confirmed, thanks.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

This is a legitimate missing dependency, but unlikely to be a big problem given that cifs-utils is on almost every seed we have:

cifs-utils (from cifs-utils) is seeded in:
  edubuntu: dvd
  kubuntu-active: daily-live
  kubuntu: daily-live, dvd
  lubuntu: daily-live
  mythbuntu: daily-live
  ubuntu-server: daily
  ubuntu: daily-live, dvd
  ubuntustudio: dvd
  xubuntu: daily-live

[conre (conre)]

10 years later, Ubuntu 22.04 and here I am - I've spent several hours trying to debug these kernel messages (checking /etc/nsswitch.conf, firewalls, etc.):

    kernel: CIFS: Unable to determine destination address

After using IP address instead of host/netbios name in maps:

    kernel: CIFS: VFS: No username specified

So, there is an easy workaround of installing `cifs-utils`, but it is quite difficult to find it out.

It would be nice to set `cifs-utils` as recommended packages, at the very least.