I honestly don't know. The initial patches from April 12th of 2017 were all
I needed and I haven't messed with it since.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 09:20 Andreas Hasenack, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> @mark-fox, were those two patches the only changes you needed, or was
> the change to the awk script (removing the quoting of $) also needed?
>
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> Title:
>   auto.smb fails on Windows administrative shares
>
> Status in autofs package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>   This is probably related to #385244.
>
>   I've been unable to get a Windows administrative share (ie. C$)
>   mounted through Autofs. Non-administrative shares work fine.
>   Administrative shares are accessible with the same credentials from
>   other Windows 10 workstations and through smbclient on Ubuntu (16.04
>   LTS) machines. Administrative shares can even be mounted using the
>   same credentials via mount on the command-line. However, autofs will
>   not mount the same shares, using the same credentials, on the same
>   Ubuntu machine.
>
>   Administrative shares are listed under /cifs/WindowsHostName, but a cd
>   /cifs/WindowsHostname/C$ results in "-bash: cd: C$: No such file or
>   directory" from the shell and the following output from 'automount -f
>   -v':
>
>   -----
>   attempting to mount entry /cifs/WindowsHostname/C$
>   >> Retrying with upper case share name
>   >> mount error(6): No such device or address
>   >> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
>   mount(generic): failed to mount //WindowsHostname/C\$ (type cifs) on
> /cifs/WindowsHostname/C$
>   failed to mount /cifs/WindowsHostname/C$
>   -----
>
>   Notice that mount complains of failing to mount 'C\$' rather than
>   'C$'. If the bit of awk script that escapes the $ is removed, it then
>   fails to mount 'C', which is also no good. I think if we could
>   actually get mount to try to mount 'C$', it would work.
>
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