Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

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@Xanderzdad

Ah ha - I knew I was missing something as the logic of just browsing as normal made no sense to me.

If you use NFS then actually do not need autofs as normally the Kodi mounting is performant enough. In those case autofs is only nice so that you have same path if you use Kodi on multiple devices

[Xanderzdad]

We have a lot of power cuts here (in the wilds of Dartmoor) so AutoFS is useful as my source is often not available at the point Kodi powers back up.
Also realised I had been using the fStab system incorrectly for the past 5 years!

[ht2tweak]

I also have this in my Vero V video review here:

OSMC Vero V Kodi Media Player Walkthrough, Tips & Review

[Bitstream]

For me, mounting a CIFS share did not work at first when following the instructions exactly.

Perhaps the solution should be included in the instructions because it is now a fairly common problem.

It is important to specify the CIFS version; it should be at least version 2.0 (vers=2.0). In my case, I used vers=3.0.

sudo nano /etc/auto.smb.shares


/mnt/nas/share -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=3.0 ://nas/share

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@Bitstream

it should be at least version 2.0

Well it isn’t that easy. There are still many people out there that are using NAS that only support SMB 1.

@Bitstream

Perhaps the solution should be included in the instructions

Not sure what more we should write

@fzinken

You may have to add an additional parameter to your /etc/auto.smb.shares , namely vers=3.0 to enforce the usage of SMB version 3 especially if you have connection issues with Windows 10.