[SOLVED] Auto mounting smb share

[walmathanyou]

I can manage to mound my PC share in terminal using:

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sudo mount -t cifs //PC/Share /mnt/share -o username=username,password=password

I add the following to /etc/fstab

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//PC/Share /mnt/share cifs username=username,password=password 0 0

After a reboot it doesn't seem to mount.
I have tried with my PC IP instead of name to no avail.

Suggetions?

[walmathanyou]

After rebooting i enter:

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sudo mount -a

Then it mounts, but not automatically.

[jacksona69]

Go into Raspi-Config, and set it to wait for network on boot. What's happening is that it's trying to mount before the network is connected.

HTH.

[thagrol]

Try changing your fstab entry to

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//PC/Share /mnt/share cifs _netdev,username=username,password=password 0 0

That should delay the mout until after the network is up.

You should also consider using the "noauto" and "x-systemd.automount" options. With those the share won't be mounted during boot (or on mount -a) but on first attempt to access it.

Oh, and expect permissions issues if you want to write to the share. Default permissions only allow writing by the owner who, unless specified in the mount options will be root when mounting via fstab.

See the output of

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man mount.cifs

for more info.

[walmathanyou]

Thanks, I am not worried about writing to the share, just want to stream media.

I think it could be a permissions issue ???
After a reboot i can see it on the GUI under the Filesystem but when I try and open it, it asks for credentials.
I have tried making a credentials file but still no luck.

[walmathanyou]

Ok I have a working solution

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//192.168.2.7/Videos /mnt/Videos cifs _netdev,credentials=/home/pi/.andycreds,uid=pi,gid=pi,x-systemd.automount 0 0

[DMike92]

Hi,
Was your password containing funny chars and is more accepted in a credential file?