I'm having trouble setting up permanent access to an Unraid share from an Ubuntu Server VM. Setting up the share in the VM settings seems to prevent me from connecting to it via SSH so instead I've been trying to mount it over the network. 

 

This works in order to mount once:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=password //serverip/share /media/share/

 

But I'd like it to automatically mount on reboot. And when I mount it using the method above, I can only write to the share using root privileges.

 

So I created a an ~/.smbcredentials file, set the chmod permissions and added the following to the /etc/fstab file:

//serverip/share /media/share cifs uid=ubuntuuser,credentials=/home/ubuntuuser/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

 

But this doesn't seem to automatically mount the share after reboot. Does anyone know how to get the share to auto mount after reboot with full read and write permissions? 

 

Thanks!

6 hours ago, JohnyClassic said:

But this doesn't seem to automatically mount the share after reboot.

 

Once you edit fstab try it with:

sudo mount -a

Does it show no errors?

 

6 hours ago, JohnyClassic said:

uid=ubuntuuser

Did you use uid=1000 ?

 

What is the format of the content of .smbcredentials?

Edited June 28, 20215 yr by ghost82

8 hours ago, ghost82 said:

 

Once you edit fstab try it with:

sudo mount -a

 

"mount error(2): No such file or directory"

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Did you use uid=1000 ?

No I didn't, I thought I was supposed to add the Ubuntu username. Although, after adding that I'm still getting the above error.

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What is the format of the content of .smbcredentials?

 

username=username
password=password

 

1 hour ago, JohnyClassic said:

"mount error(2): No such file or directory"

No I didn't, I thought I was supposed to add the Ubuntu username. Although, after adding that I'm still getting the above error.

 

username=username
password=password

 

No by uid you need to specify the user id, i.e. a number. uid 1000 is the first non root user.

As far as .smbcredentials, add also the domain:

username=myUser
password=myPass
domain=WORKGROUP

Of course, put a real user, a real password and a real domain.

Make sure that the mounting point, i.e. the folder, already exists on your guest (/media/share/).

Always respect capital and non capital letters.

I would also add a / after share in the fstab: not sure it's mandatory but share is a folder so I would specify it by /media/share/ instead of /media/share

Edited June 28, 20215 yr by ghost82

21 hours ago, ghost82 said:

No by uid you need to specify the user id, i.e. a number. uid 1000 is the first non root user.

As far as .smbcredentials, add also the domain:

username=myUser
password=myPass
domain=WORKGROUP

Of course, put a real user, a real password and a real domain.

Make sure that the mounting point, i.e. the folder, already exists on your guest (/media/share/).

Always respect capital and non capital letters.

I would also add a / after share in the fstab: not sure it's mandatory but share is a folder so I would specify it by /media/share/ instead of /media/share

I updated it all with everything you noted above. I'm still getting "mount error(2): No such file or directory". 

What are the permissions and owner of /media/share?

23 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

What are the permissions and owner of /media/share?

It was (0755/drwxr-xr-x) and root. I tried changing it to (0777/drwxrwxrwx) and to the Ubuntu user but I'm still getting the error. Are there specific permissions I should set? looks like the workgroup is still set to root. I'm not sure if that matters.

Try adding vers=1.0 to the fstab line

1 hour ago, jonathanm said:

Try adding vers=1.0 to the fstab line

That worked! Thanks so much for the help guys.