Auto-mount persistent SMB shares-revisit

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Revisiting "Auto-mount persistent SMB shares" as it has been closed.

Zorin 64-bit OS 16.3
AMD® Ryzen 7 4700u with radeon graphics × 8
18G RAM

The reconnection of my SMB share has been working for over a year and no longer works. I changed nothing on the Zorin machine nor on the Windows share PC.

From the now-closed post above I tried several things:

  • I reran the command sudo apt install cifs-utils
  • I have a working shortcut in Gigolo but do not see how to get it to auto-run at startup. (Instructions say to enable an auto-connect flag but I see no way to do this.)

Most answers (and what eventually worked) have the fstab file and the smb.conf file setup for my environment but as I said, doesn't work anymore.

Below are the relevant fstab and smb.conf file lines, maybe someone can spot something?

Isn't there a way to add to the startup apps utility a command like:
smb://pcname.local/share/

Thanks all!

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FSTAB:

UUID=ba1481b8-6324-4aaf-ace9-f44b3de1c096 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=9B4B-E346 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
//192.168.10.107/plexyd /home/richieg/samba cifs credentials=/home/richieg/.smbcredentials,uid=richieg,gid=richieg 0 0

SMB.CONF:
#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

##Browsing/Identification ###

Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = LOVEBIRDS
client min protocol = NT1
server min protocol = NT1

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UPDATE
After being advised to change the last FSTAB line slightly to:

//192.168.1.244/servername /home/me/samba cifs credentials=/home/me/.smbcredentials,uid=rich,gid=rich,noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev 0 0 0 0

Now the share does automount but with 2 weird twists...

  1. I get 2 separate and identical SAMBA locations in my FILES' locations list,
  2. The new SAMBA locations seem to be very much slower connections than if I manually mount the same share via
    FILES > Other Locations > Connect to server > smb://server.local/share/

Thoughts?
Thank ya'll so much!
RichieG

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I would also like to auto mount my smb share at startup. I can do it on my pi4.

I can manually mount using the terminal with the same command I use on the pi but the line I use in the fstab on the pi does not work on Zorin.

I've also succeeded at accessing the folders through the files app and bookmarking them. At least I only have to open files and click on the bookmark to get the "network servers" shortcut to appear on the desktop.

Note: The shared folder on the windows pc has a space in the name. On the pi "\040" is used for the space. Is that correct for Zorin?

Logon to network folder using files app

smb://MSI-I9-11-2.local/Shared Media/

Manual mount in terminal

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=name,password=password "//192.168.77.104/Shared Media" /mnt/Media

Auto mount in fstab (this one not working)

//192.168.77.104/Shared\040Media/ /mnt/Media cifs username=name,password=password 0 0
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This two week old guide might help?:

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I followed that guide and it still does not work.

I added the following to the fstab.

//192.168.77.104/Shared\040Media /mnt/Media cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials_auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

I seem to remember having a similar issue with the PI because it was trying to mount network shares before making the wifi connection.

I'm going to boot up the PI4 and have a look at the fstab there, maybe I had to add something. Nope, I see nothing there but I'm betting this is the issue.

I know there's a way to make the system wait for the wifi to connect during boot, but I forgot how. I'm going to create a new post for this question.

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I notice a mix of forward and backward slashes ... shouldn't they all be one or the other?

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"\040" represents the space in the windows folder name.

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Don't know if this would work any better, but I suspect systemd causes more problems than it solves:

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I got it working, differently.

It automounts the windows share when I open the folder, not when the system boots.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=7e781b6e-de2e-45d4-96ca-74061209be9e /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=A415-20C6  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0
# Mount HDD
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d8e5dd52-ea9a-46da-85ba-2b981945bb1d /mnt/d8e5dd52-ea9a-46da-85ba-2b981945bb1d auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
#Mount Shared Media
//192.168.77.104/Shared\040Media /mnt/Media cifs username=Name,password=pass,x-systemd.automount 0 0
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