Question about autofs setup

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I’m fairly certain I did the steps correctly but I’m a little confused about the step you add your shares.

/mnt/<server1>/<share1> -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc ://<IP of server1>/<share1>/
/mnt/<server2>/<share2> -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc ://<IP of server2>/<share2>

IP of server is obviously my Mac. Since my content is on an external the path starts with Volumes/… Does that go in both spots that say share 1? Is server 1 the name smb uses or is it something else?

Thanks!

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Hi,

It looks like you’re still editing your post.
Once this is done, let us know so we can check the fstab lines

Sam

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I was trying to get the quote correct on mobile. Done now. Thanks!

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For this example, this part:

 /mnt/<server1>/<share1>

is where the share will mount on OSMC, so the name is entirely up to you. It could be

/mnt/NameOfServer/Share

or

/mnt/Share

it’s up to you how to handle that.

It’s the last part:

://<IP of server1>/<share1>/

that controls where the mount is coming from. The name of the mount point and mounted share can be completely different, but it’s a good idea for your sanity to keep them similar. :smiley:

Additional info I just thought of to share (pun intended)…

I personally do not include the name of the server in the mount point. I have 4 drives connected to a NAS (+ the NAS drive) and mount them as the name of the share, so something like:

/mnt/Drive1
/mnt/Drive2

etc. Now say in the future that I get a new NAS and keep the old NAS, but want to move Drive2 to the new NAS. All I have to do is change the :// part of the mount. To Kodi, the movies will still be on /mnt/Drive2. It won’t know that I moved them to a new server, so the movies will still play. If I used something like /mnt/NAS1/Drive2 then moved the drive to NAS2 and changed the mount point, it would be /mnt/NAS2/Drive2. Now Kodi will not be able to play them.

Hopefully this makes sense!

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Thanks, for all that info. I’m able to find the folder in OSMC but it’s empty. When I add it to my library nothing scans. I must be missing something simple. Maybe I’m not pointing it correctly to the files.

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Can you share exactly what’s in the autofs file and the results of mount? From SSH:

cat /etc/<name of the autofs map file> | paste-log
mount | paste-log

and share the URLs.

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https://paste.osmc.tv/zuhedaneme

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And the content of /etc/auto.smb.shares?

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/mnt/4KMovies -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc ://192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K

I’ve tried so many variations of this file lol but this is my most recent.

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I’m guessing that it’s a SMB version mismatch. Have you tried using vers=2.0 or vers=3.0 or even vers=1.0 in the map file?

If non of the vers= variations work, please send full logs:

 grab-logs -A

BTW, after you make a change to the map file, you must restart autofs:

sudo systemctl restart autofs

for the changes to take affect.

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I haven’t tried changing the version. Where would I add that? I do restart after every change.

If that doesn’t work I’ll grab the logs. I used to use SMBUp for Mac but for some reason it stopped working so I ended up down this rabbit hole.

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To change the version:

/mnt/4KMovies -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=x.0 ://192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K

replace x.0 with 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0

Have you tried as suggested in the tutorial to put autofs in debug mode?

sudo systemctl stop autofs
sudo automount -f -v -d

That will probably show why it’s not mounting.

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Maybe just first check if SMB is working properly on the MAC.

Install smbclient sudo apt-get install smbclient and run smbclient -L 192.168.1.215 -U <your user>

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It’s actually a new computer and I managed to get SMB working earlier today with OSMC but everyone said autofs was superior for UHD. I’ll try it though.

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But earlier you said:

So it’s a little confusing. Have you ever use SMB from the new MAC? And how did you get SMB working earlier? fstab?

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Not this Mac. My old external hard drives crashed and I lost all my bd’s so I waited a while before starting the process of re-ripping everything via makemkv. Once I got the new computer I figured I’d get everything setup again. But SMBUp doesn’t work with the newer OS.

Edit: Tried v1, v2, v3 I’ll pull logs.

handle_packet_missing_direct: token 448, name /mnt/4KMovies, request pid 4291

attempting to mount entry /mnt/4KMovies

lookup_mount: lookup(file): looking up /mnt/4KMovies

lookup_mount: lookup(file): /mnt/4KMovies → -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0 ://192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K

parse_mount: parse(sun): expanded entry: -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0 ://192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K

parse_mount: parse(sun): gathered options: fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0

parse_mount: parse(sun): dequote(“://192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K”) → ://192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K

parse_mount: parse(sun): core of entry: options=fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0, loc=://192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K

sun_mount: parse(sun): mounting root /mnt/4KMovies, mountpoint /mnt/4KMovies, what //192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K, fstype cifs, options rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0

do_mount: //192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K /mnt/4KMovies type cifs options rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0 using module generic

mount_mount: mount(generic): calling mkdir_path /mnt/4KMovies

mount_mount: mount(generic): calling mount -t cifs -o rw,credentials=/home/osmc/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,uid=osmc,gid=osmc,vers=1.0 //192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K /mnt/4KMovies

mount error(5): Input/output error

Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

mount(generic): failed to mount //192.168.1.215/Volumes/Plex1/Plex/4K (type cifs) on /mnt/4KMovies

dev_ioctl_send_fail: token = 448

failed to mount /mnt/4KMovies

Is what it says in debug mode.

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Do as @fzinken suggested and test with smbclient.

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When I go into terminal I get apt-get command not found. It first asks for my password then spits out that error.

Edit: Apparently apt-get doesn’t work for Mac without downloading Xcode or some other program. Reading the article now.

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Try:

sudo apt install smbclient

instead.

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You need to install smbclient on the OSMC system, not the MAC! When we give you command line stuff to try, it’s always to try from OSMC.