Xubuntu 13.04 - cifs-utils not working

[Alan.Brown]

I have just upgraded two computers to Xubuntu 13.04. Now the External USB drive connected to the Modem/Router cannot be mounted. This has been working OK for months until today when I upgraded

The relevant line in /etc/fstab is:

# Network USB Drive - ie the USB Flash Drive connected to the Modem
//192.168.0.1/USB /home/user/USB cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,guest,_netdev 0 0


I have tried reinstalling cifs-utils but that does not help.

In Dolphin I can access the drive by going Network > Samba Shares > USB Readyshare... &c.

[Toz]

Can you mount the share manually?

sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=1000,gid=1000,guest,_netdev //192.168.0.1/USB /home/user/USB

Do you get any error messages?

[Alan.Brown]

I tried your suggestion and got the following


mount error(5): Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)



This has been working OK until the upgrade. I have the same problem on three different computers - all have been upgraded.

[Alan.Brown]

I have found a solution. Add the option sec=ntlm - this works both in a manual mount and from fstab

The fstab entry is now -

# Network USB Drive - ie the USB Flash Drive connected to the Modem
//192.168.0.1/USB /home/user/USB cifs sec=ntlm,uid=1000,gid=1000,guest,_netdev 0 0


I found the solution here - http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2566

I have no idea why this works :(

[Steve R.]

Thanks for the post. Mounting my USB Drive failed with the upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04. The solution you posted worked for me too. Thanks.

[Rabreu]

That worked for me.Thanks.

[rkuhnjr]

Thanks for this, I was racking my brain for a good hour trying to understand why my cifs mounts were not mounting.
For anyone else coming across this post I was getting the following error on my cifs samba based shares.

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


in fst tab (added bold as mentioned):
//**.**.**.**/Backups /mnt/nas/Backups cifs sec=ntlm,rw,auto,guest,users

After which run mount -a


Thanks!

[mvidberg]

I have a DLINK DNS-321 NAS unit and was having the same problem. It's been working for years and all of a sudden after updating, it stopped. Adding the sec=ntlm to my fstab worked for me as well.

[merrillholt]

Worked for me on Kubuntu accessing a remote disk on an Apple Airport Extreme. Thanks.

[jamesisin]

Adding sec=ntlm didn't work for me. Here is my thread if anyone has any insight.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2156972

[davidilieberman]

That did the trick for me. Thanks!