Struggling to automounting a network drive

[yusuo85]

So I've followed the instructions for mounting for auto mounting my network drive in fstab, that i found https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

However I keep getting an error
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 11 -- ignored

And im guessing that is because the Window share im trying to automount has a space in it, the fstab entry is as below
//192.168.0.115/Media PC /media/share cifs credentials=/home/laptop/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

I have created the credentials, but on the odd chance i didn't I also tried to enter this entry into fstab but still get the same error
//192.168.0.115/Media PC /media/share cifs username=Media,password=*********,iocharset=utf8,s ec=ntlm 0 0
(obviously i've blanked my real password)

I can access the share perfectly through Caja but who wouldn't want it all just to work automatically.

Anyone have any ideas where im going wrong?

[TheFu]

Your guess is correct. Don't allow spaces anywhere in mounts. Use an '_' instead. Spaces are always troublesome in file systems, so the simple answer is DON'T USE THEM.

Also, I really hope that the remote mount doesn't need sec=ntlm - that is a security failure for the last few years.
I use these options to access Win7 shares:

iocharset=utf8,rw,vers=2.1,uid=thefu,gid=thefu,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770

in addition to having a credentials file.
Win8 and later can support newer, faster, CIFS mounts.

[Morbius1]

Spaces in the name of things in fstab need to be replaced with the following characters:

\040

That is a zero4zero

So the line would look like this:

//192.168.0.115/Media\040PC /media/share cifs credentials=/home/laptop/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

And what version of Ubuntu are you using because by default the Linux kernel in 20.04 for example starts with a version of the smb dialect that is incompatible with sec=ntlm.

Either add vers=1.0 to your list of options together with sec=ntlm or just remove sec=ntlm. So possible options would be:

//192.168.0.115/Media\040PC /media/share cifs credentials=/home/laptop/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0,sec=ntlm 0 0

OR:

//192.168.0.115/Media\040PC /media/share cifs credentials=/home/laptop/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 0 0

And I agree that unless you only want read access to this share you will need to - at a minimum - take possession of the mount by adding a uid=your-linux-user-name whatever that is.