Problems mounting samba share with fstab

[rodney757]

I am trying to set it up so that my samba share is automatically mounted when I log in.

I added this to my /etc/fstab:

//192.168.1.2/media /home/rj/Server/media cifs credentials=/root/smb/credentials,rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

When I type :

sudo mount -a

I get :

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.1.2/media,
       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

dmesg | tail gives me :

[ 1603.542098] CIFS VFS: No username specified
[ 1603.542113] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

my /root/smb/credentials file looks like :

username=(myusername)
password=(mypassword)

Where (myusername) and (mypassword) are my actual username and password

However if I replace the credentials=/root/smb/credentials line in /etc/fstab with username=(myusername),password=(mypassword) it will mount the share. So something with the /root/smb/credentials file isn't right.

Thanks for the help.

[rodney757]

Anyone know how I can go about fixing this? Thanks

[rodney757]

Has anyone had this problem before?

[volkswagner]

Well I have been wanting to do this..

I'm gonna work through it with you to see if we get any differences.

I noticed some how to's use .credentials for file name..... are you missing the "." for file name?

What are the permissions for /root/smb/credentials?

Most how to's put the .credentials directly in /root... any reason why you added the sub directory smb?

Do you have your domain/workgroup listed in the credentials file?

According to man page credentials can be listed like..

username=value
      password=value
      domain=value

are we running same version?

mount.cifs -V
mount.cifs version: 1.12-3.4.7

EDIT; I had no problem using this setup "credentials=/root/smb/credentials", with the file formatted like above.

[rodney757]

Well I have been wanting to do this..

I'm gonna work through it with you to see if we get any differences.

I noticed some how to's use .credentials for file name..... are you missing the "." for file name?

What are the permissions for /root/smb/credentials?

Most how to's put the .credentials directly in /root... any reason why you added the sub directory smb?

Do you have your domain/workgroup listed in the credentials file?

According to man page credentials can be listed like..

username=value
      password=value
      domain=value

are we running same version?

mount.cifs -V
mount.cifs version: 1.12-3.4.7

EDIT; I had no problem using this setup "credentials=/root/smb/credentials", with the file formatted like above.

I tried checking mount.cifs -V and it wasn't installed. I installed it and now it will mount using credentials= in the /etc/fstab file.

I actually have my credentials file in /root/smb/credentials now. The reason it was there was because I was testing to see if it would work if it were in my home folder, since it wasn't working in the /root/smb/ dir.

Its interesting that everything would mount fine before installing mount.cifs if I replaced:

credential=/path/to/credentials_file

in /etc/fstab with:

username=<username>,password=<password>

.

I guess mount.cifs has to do with using a credentials file?

Anyway's thanks for the help.

[eyekode]

Thanks for posting this. I was having the same problem and this fixed it as well. Not sure why cifs-utils is not automatically bundled with the rest of the cifs support.

[ottabaub]

I had the same problem with the same error. I found that even if you have Samba installed you need to install smbfs.

sudo apt-get install smbfs

That did the trick. No more errors on sudo mount -a and my drive is mounted.

This is a very good document:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mo...resPermanently

[bayvista]

Thanks for that. I can now mount my Samba share in Ubuntu. However I cannot write to it?? Any ideas?

[volkswagner]

Thanks for that. I can now mount my Samba share in Ubuntu. However I cannot write to it?? Any ideas?

Did you copy the mount command from the original post? Perhaps your userID is not the same. If you are not the first installed user, you wont have uid=1000 as in the OP.

uid=1000,gid=1000

You can find your UID from /etc/group

cat /etc/group | grep yourusername:

Where is the share located, on a windows machine or a Linux box?

What are the permissions and the owner:group for the share?

ls -l /share/mountoint

[bayvista]

Thanks for your prompt reply. My Windows machine is a WD MyBookWorld NAS storage. I can talk to it from a Windows PC running their proprietary software called WD Discovery. I have installed it on my home network and can attach it to my 2 Ubuntu PCs using both Places/Network and fstab. I can read and write to the 'Shared' folders and have successfully used rsync to copy folders from both PCs.

I have always used rsync for backup and want to continue doing this. I can rsync my home folder OK but cannot rsync my wife's home folder. She is user 'pam'. I have tried using Webmin to setup a shared 'backups' folder. This works OK but only I can access it. When I try to copy her folders, I get 'Error while copying. You do not have permissions'

I tried following your notes. My UID is 1000, Pam's is 1001. Our GID is 1000. Confirmed by the cat command. Could not understand the 'ls' command. If the share is called 'Shared Pictures' and it is mounted on /media/hp-nas, surely the command is "ls -l /media/hp-nas/'Shared Pictures'?". This works fine. I have pasted the output fo your comments.

drwxrwxrwx 5 99 david 0 Mar 7 2012 acting
drwxr-xr-x 3 99 david 0 Dec 5 17:00 Albert
drwx------ 3 99 david 0 Dec 5 17:05 Books
drwx------ 2 99 david 0 Dec 9 16:37 Concord houses
drwx------ 4 99 david 0 Dec 5 16:53 Condoblin
drwx------ 2 99 david 0 Dec 9 16:52 council
drwxrwxrwx 3 99 david 0 May 7 2009 davids 60th
drwx------ 5 99 david 0 Dec 5 16:39 dilys
drwx------ 3 99 david 0 Feb 22 2011 Downloaded Albums
drwxrwxrwx 8 99 david 0 Dec 9 16:38 Family Days
drwx------ 33 99 david 0 Dec 5 17:17 Family History - Pam
drwx------ 2 99 david 0 Oct 4 2011 For filing
drwx------ 3 99 david 0 Dec 5 16:52 Groups
drwxrwxrwx 11 99 david 0 Dec 5 17:24 Holidays & Outings
drwxr-xr-x 3 99 david 0 Jul 13 2011 Important Documents
drwxrwxrwx 4 99 david 0 Mar 7 2012 Norman St
drwx------ 2 99 david 0 Mar 7 2012 Pam's 70th
drwx------ 21 99 david 0 Aug 28 16:12 Picasa Exports
-rwx------ 1 99 david 18569 Feb 12 2010 Picasa.ini
drwx------ 5 99 david 0 Dec 5 17:21 Scrolls and Bushcare
drwxrwxrwx 3 99 david 0 Mar 7 2012 Wildlife
david@hp-desktop ~ $


Many thanks. I'll keep plugging away.