I upgraded from Linux Mint 17.1 to 18.3 with a clean install, and am re-using the same fstab file. Local drives work fine, but although my unraid share mount points are visible under /mnt/sampleshare the shares are not actually mounted as I don't see any files or folders.

 

Below sample line from fstab; these worked on my previous Mint install. My uid and gid are still 1000.

//themonolith.local/sampleshare /mnt/sampleshare cifs guest,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

Any idea what's wrong?

Edited June 4, 20188 yr by Ulvan

Do the shares mount if you do a

  sudo mount-a

command in a terminal window?    If that works then there is probably a timing error during boot as to whether the network is available when the mount is tried.  Adding _netdev to the options section of the fstab entry may help rectify this. 

 

mount-a command not found.

 

I added _netdev at the end of the line in fstab, didn't help.

Did you install the cifs tools?

7 hours ago, Ulvan said:

mount-a command not found.

 

I added _netdev at the end of the line in fstab, didn't help.

 

sudo mount -a

 

(the space was missed by the original suggestor)

Found a fix: looks like fstab format has changed between Mint/Ubuntu/kernel/whatever versions.

 

Instead of

//themonolith.local/sampleshare /mnt/sampleshare cifs guest,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

 

I need to use this instead

//themonolith.local/sampleshare /mnt/sampleshare cifs username=guest,password=,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

 

This mounts the shares correctly at boot time!

Edited June 4, 20188 yr by Ulvan