Hiya,

I'm pretty new, and using KDE Neon. I've been mucking around with systemd and fstab and i've decided for now to just use fstab and not use systemd .mount units because it confused me too much at this stage of my learning (and after faffing about for half a day with it).

So, i've just gone a traditional fstab entry. My problem is that i login and when i open Dolphin, the IP address/share of what i'm trying to mount shows up green (as opposed to orange when it's not mounted) but when i click on it - it is empty. Similarly if i go into the location i assigned the mount - no files/folders.

fstab:
When i mount manually it all works perfectly normally - i can see my files/folders in the location i expect them to be. Using:
I'm at a loss as to what i'm doing wrong.

Help appreciated Thanks.

A google search for ip address fstab cifs produced this:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/15712...-share-on-boot

Can you try the proposed solution?

Thanks for the helping hand I've been Googling like mad and i hadn't come across that page. I should remember to use DuckDuckGo for these sorts of things because Google has a habit of narrowing results - the filter bubble.

Anyway, the only thing different in that post to what i'd tried before was adding domain=workgroup. I had tried using the hidden credentials file before but i thought to remove it from my fstab to eliminate that as being a source of the issue - perhaps i've been doing that wrong (but i don't think so based on that link).

So anyway i made a new .nascreds file and chmodded it, including the workgroup this time. I did a mount -a and presto it all worked. But remember manually doing it had always worked. I rebooted and instead of getting nothing in the folders i get a big red error:

One thing i noticed though is when i do $ id - there is 126 sambashare - do i need to use this anywhere instead of uid/gid=1000 which is my id? The entry "uid=shareuser,gid=sharegroup" in that page made me think i shouldn't be using 'my' id.

Oh well, some progress perhaps. I have to say that I'm out of my depth here and hoping that someone more knowledgeable will step in.

In the meantime, what does your fstab currently look like?

Also, did you install cifs-utils?

The system is trying to mount the remote filesystem before the network is up and therefore fails. Try adding the _netdev option which says to wait.

Sorry, i missed that earlier. Yes - i have done that.


Sadly that didn't help. Same permissions issue.

Should i note that /home is encrypted? Does that make any difference? Perhaps my .nascreds file should be placed somewhere other than /home? If recommended i'll try that when i get home.