Mounting smb shares with permissions for other users

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Hi,

I followed every piece of advice I could find on this forum, and I sill can’t make it.
I want to:

  • mount a disk being shared by my router via smb automatically at restart

I manage to mount it and unmount it as osmc - manually. But I can’t seem to have it automatically mounted after restarting the Pi.

Here’s my fstab:

//share/folder /home/osmc/videos cifs noauto,uid=1000,gid=1000,noperm,rw,sec=ntlmv2,user=myuser,pass=mypass,users,nobrl,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,nounix,iocharset=utf8 0 0

I tried the x-systemd.automount, but fstab doesn’t seem to like it - I always get an “invalid argument” when using it (testing manually)

I’d appreciate any help with this.

Cheers,

Francis

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You have set the option noauto in the mount istruction in your fstab file.

This will stop it automatically mounting. Try removing this option and rebooting.

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I tried that, no luck…

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Try using the IP address.

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Can you reboot and then post the output of dmesg, journalctl and systemctl status smbd on the OSMC pastebin and link them here?

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Did you actually try adding it in fstab or did you only test it on the command line ?

x-systemd.automount won’t work on a mount command line as its not an actual file system mount option. It is a systemd option which is read from fstab. It doesn’t get passed to the underlying file system but instead signals systemd to create an automount unit for the mount point.

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@oculos, just to help out a bit with understanding as I also got myself confused with the “invalid argument” issue.

  1. As @DBMandrake wrote initiating the mount manually with mount /mountpoint will throw out the error as it is not designed for that.

  2. This should be your line in fstab //<IP of Server>/<share name>/ /mnt/<mountpoint> cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,iocharset=utf8,user,username=<username>,password=<password>,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770 0 0

  3. After you entered the line in fstab and you reboot if you just call mount you will not see the drive being mounted. That only will happen once a file operation is executed on the that filesystem e.g by ls /mnt/<mountpoint>

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Thanks a lot @fzinken - it worked! Indeed, I was expecting it to show already when I reboot, but it didn’t. Then I followed your advice and performed a file operation, and BOOM, there it was! :slight_smile: And I didn’t even need the ip address.