Auto mounting smb fstab

pr0xibus · 10-19-2014, 04:40 PM

Evening guys

I have a share on a windows server under //192.168.1.1/Backup this is mounted to /mnt/Windows

My fstab looks like

Code:

dev/sda1        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/sda2        /                ext4        defaults         1   1
#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro,comment=x-gvfs-show 0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0
//192.168.1.1/Backup /mnt/Windows cifs credentials=/etc/creds-home,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

now if i log in as root it mounts just fine with read/write but when logging in as my normal account it wont mount. on dolphin the error is "An error occurred while accessing backup, the system responsed mount: only root can mount 192.168.1.1/Backup on /mnt/Windows"

any help would be appreciated

Didier Spaier · 10-19-2014, 06:03 PM

I'd add the user option to the fourth field:

Code:

//192.168.1.1/Backup /mnt/Windows cifs credentials=/etc/creds-home,uid=1000,gid=100,user 0 0

pr0xibus · 10-20-2014, 12:29 AM

Hello

Thanks for the reply, the error i now receive in dolphin is
"An errror occured: The program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported

dmesg gave me

Code:

[   15.833826] FS-Cache: Loaded
[   15.844674] FS-Cache: Netfs 'cifs' registered for caching
[   15.848782] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[   15.848846] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101
[   15.918856] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[   15.918910] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101

lukameen · 10-20-2014, 08:09 AM

I have several windows servers and shares I automount and have no problems accessing, writing to, etc. I'm also the only user on my slackware box at work. I created a .smbcredentials file that works well for me. Try creating a .smbcredentials file and set up your fstab like the below example.

//192.168.1.1/backup /mnt/windows cifs credentials=/etc/creds-home/.smbcredentials,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

pr0xibus · 10-20-2014, 01:49 PM

Hello

Thanks for the reply,

Its currently what i have /etc/creds-home is the credential file i tried what you had suggested but its the same error "only root can mount 192.168.1.1/Backup on /mnt/Windows" For just now i have resorted to mount -t cifs //**** via konsole which works fine

bassmadrigal · 10-20-2014, 01:58 PM

Do you have /mnt/Windows as 777? If the user doesn't have access to the directory, it may prevent the mounting. I can't check my system since I got rid of cifs mounts years ago for NFS mounts.

perbh · 10-21-2014, 07:30 AM

Maybe you could mount it trhough /etc/rc.d/rc.local ?
I often do this for somewhat 'special' occasions ... eg

Code:

df -a | grep -wq '/mnt/Windows$' || {
  mount -t cifs -o credentials=.... //192.168.1.1/Backup /mnt/Windows && \
  echo ":: mounted windows share"
}