# How to install autofs
**URL:** https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-autofs/286
**Category:** Bluefin
**Created:** [December 21, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-autofs/286 "2023-12-21T12:36:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@indibart](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/indibart)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-autofs/286/1 "2023-12-21T12:36:10Z")
Hi there!
I’m new to bluefin/ublue/containers etc. coming from traditional Linux. Until it clicks I’ll probably ask very basic (sometimes probably stupid) questions. I hope you’re going to look past it 🙂
I would like to install autofs to automount NFS and SMB shares.
What’s the best way to do that?
(Traditionally one would just install autofs. So probably rpm-ostree install autofs.)
Cheers
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### Author:  [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-autofs/286/2 "2023-12-21T22:42:56Z")
I think you’d want to just use the normal systemd automounting instead of another tool?
> **[Automatic mounts using systemd](https://anteru.net/blog/2019/automatic-mounts-using-systemd/)**
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> Anteru's blog is a blog about development, software architecture and 3D graphics.
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### Author:  [@indibart](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/indibart)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-autofs/286/3 "2023-12-23T13:55:13Z")
Oh I didn’t know systemd could do that. Thanks for that, I’ll look into it.
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### Author:  [@indibart](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/indibart)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-autofs/286/4 "2023-12-23T14:04:50Z")
Related question: What is the recommended location for mount points in Bluefin or in general in imutable systems?
Traditionally I would put the mount point somewhere under /mnt, but /mnt is read-only in Bluefin. Do I understand correctly that best practice would be to make the mount point under /var/mnt?
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### Author:  [@j0rge](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/j0rge)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-autofs/286/5 "2023-12-23T17:19:48Z")
`/mnt` is just a symlink to `/var/mnt`, that should work fine!