Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

**Humanity to others** · January 31st, 2012

Hi

I am using Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I have permaentaly mounted samba shares on few pcs and running dos application by using dosemu. while I calling same exe file which is using another system that not running, ie I can run same dos application in serval system.

Using 11.04, I am suceessfully running dos application on shared environment. Because 10.04.3 is LTS version I planning change from 11.04 to 10.04.3. Kindly Help...

my fstab enty on Ubuntu 11.04 is

//192.168.0.1/share /mnt/share smbfs username=********,password=******* 0 0

**ailioiu** · June 13th, 2012

Hello everyboby,

I folowed all the steps in the first message of the thread, all went ok.

The folder I want to mount automatically is on a Win7 computer, on the Desktop.
The machine I want to mount it on is Ubuntu 12, fresh install (my main computer broke and I have to finish a project before yesterday so I popped an old laptop and put ubuntu on it)

the test resulted in the following error:

adrian@adrian-PC:~$ sudo mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //laptop-catalina/users/catalina/Desktop/WORDFAST_TMs,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I am a total zero on Linux, please tell me if I can mak it work somehow.

Thank you.
Dan

**Mecallie** · November 1st, 2012

This is so weird! After some updates to cifs/smb last month my fstab entry stopped working. I am continuously getting error 13 now. After messing with it for weeks I decided to try and replace my .smbcredentials part by a username/password part. And now all is fine, mounts perfectly when I try sudo mount -a !

So a few questions:
Anyone know why it stopped working after the update?
Anyone know how I can get it to work again using the .smbcredentials file?

Should the username/password be in the first or second format for it to work?

Code:

username=blaat,password=blabla

Code:

username=blaat
password=blabla

I was using the last, not tried the first yet.

**PaulHuffman** · November 1st, 2012

I've only used the second form, two separate lines in .smbcredentials.

**dmizer** · February 8th, 2013

Due to recent changes in the samba packages, the prework section is a little out of date.

Instead of

Code:

sudo apt-get install smbfs

It should now read:

Code:

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

**nickdc** · 3 Weeks Ago

Can't thank you enough for this clear, easy to follow tutorial. I've been struggling for weeks to get a NAS box permanently mounted so I can run automated backups, and after reading dozens of threads and trying umpteen supposed solutions, yours finally delivers. Many, many thanks!

**nickdc** · 3 Weeks Ago

Having successfully completed a first backup set, I've been playing around a bit and found something I don't fully understand. When I open the mounted NAS share (it's actually an external usb drive attached to an old QNAP TS-109: //NAS-2-QNAP/USBDisk1/) from its icon on the desktop, I can see the backup folder and manually create other folders on the share; however I can't add a further folder inside any of them - the option is greyed out. I thought this might be something to do with permissions (which I struggle to get my head round) - that somehow the permissions on the share (created when I set up the NAS) are not being applied recursively (I vaguely remember reading about this as an issue with the QNAP a long time ago, but I can't find it now). However, if I navigate to the same share via Places>Network>Windows Network>Mygroup>NAS-2-QNAP>USBDisk1, I can create folders within folders to my heart's content, without any problems. This isn't an issue, therefore: I mainly want the share for auto-backup and that is working, and if I want to save extra stuff I can remember to go via the network rather than the cifs mounted icon; but I'm curious as to how this all fits together.

**Cammy** · 2 Weeks Ago

Is there any way to get rid of these 101 errors at bootup, which presumable are due to the fact that the network drivers aren't yet loaded, or something.

Code:

mount error(101): Network is unreachable
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mount error(101): Network is unreachable
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mountall: mount /media/data [736] terminated with status 32