unable to mount cifs on boot (but mount -a works)

msharp1

Hi,

I've been trying many variants based on this guide but still unable to mount a cifs volume on boot. _netdev doesn't change anything.

I saw people suggesting to turn the fstab entry into a systemd thing, but I'd like to stick solution based on fstab, if possible. Even a GUI based approach in nautilus would be great (like an option to auto mount when the budgie session starts).

Note : I'm able to mount the volume with mount -a

my fstab looks like:

//192.168.0.199/xxx /mnt/xxx cifs user,uid=1000,_netdev,credentials=/etc/xxx/yyy 0 0

528491

same issue here. I've read here that it's an issue in systemd v244.
I am on systemd v246.4-90 and the issue still persists.
I wasn't able to find out if this is being worked on by the systemd developers, does somebody know more?

Nic

I was able to auto-mount my NFS shares by following the Arch wiki. One of the other forum users said my entry didn't work for them, but I'll put it below just in case it can work for you.
192.168.0.10:/data/media /media nfs _netdev,noauto,x-systemd.requires=network-online.target,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=20,timeo=14,x-systemd.idle-timeout=1min 0 0

Someone else suggested using systemd directly to mount instead, and was following this.

George1955

I initially got this error "This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported". After googling a bit I solved it by automounting Samba at boot and also doing this;
sudo chmod u+s /bin/...):
/bin/mount
/bin/umount
/usr/sbin/mount.cifs
I was then able to automount my CIFS shares
//192.168.178.26/xxxxxx /media/Music cifsuser,credentials=/home/xxxxxx/.smbcredentials,uid=xxxxxx,gid=1000 0 0