Auto mounting network share using fstab

[corydchurch]

I am trying to auto mount a network ntfs share in Ubunutu.

I have followed these instructions to the T using Ubuntu 12.10

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12456976#post12456976

. After I do

sudo mount -a

I get

mount error (13): Permission denied

Can anyone help?

[Cheesemill]

What line did you add to your fstab file?
Can you post the result of...

cat /etc/fstab

[papibe]

Hi corydchurch. Welcome to the forums

Although it may work, smbfs is a deprecated package. Try installing 'cifs-utils' instead.

If that doesn't work, could you post the content of your /etc/fstab ?

Regards.

[corydchurch]

thanks for the fast response.

just like the link above instructed, here's my line in fstab:

//myurl/media /media/plex cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/root/.cifcredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

of course for "myurl" I put my url to the network share.

and here's the entire fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=cbc1cb0d-bdb6-4363-b8b7-872e069b949a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=5164db60-3507-4b4d-9229-790b86b5504c none            swap    sw              0       0
//myurl/media /media/plex cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/root/.cifcredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

[corydchurch]

Hi corydchurch. Welcome to the forums

Although it may work, smbfs is a deprecated package. Try installing 'cifs-utils' instead.

If that doesn't work, could you post the content of your /etc/fstab ?

Regards.

Yes, I have also installed cifs-utils. does that change how I write up my line in fstab?

[Cheesemill]

You have a typo in your fstab file.

credentials=/root/.cifcredentials

should be

credentials=/root/.cifscredentials

If that's what you've called your credentials file.

[corydchurch]

no I know. I already created the credentials file and forgot the "s" so instead of renaming the file, I just omitted the "s" in the file name in fstab.

[papibe]

Try mounting the share manually on the command line to see if you get a more comprehensive error message:

sudo mount -ocredentials=/root/.cifcredentials -t cifs //myurl/media /media/plex

Let us know how it goes.
Regards.

[corydchurch]

I get the same thing as sudo mount -a

mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I am looking at that page now

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs

but honestly not sure what to look for.

[Cheesemill]

Does your password have any special characters in it?

If so then you may have to surround your password with quotes in the /root/.cifcredentials file...

username=rob
password="my!$%password"