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So I would like to be able to use my smb share convienently, however gvfs gives it a rather complex name. I have tried a symlink like this to a pre-existing directory /mnt/qnap:

ln -s /var/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share\:server\=qnap\,share\=transfer/ /mnt/qnap

but then I get a link to the last directory name (which is still quite cumbersome), not the contents of the directory:

mike@Abra:~$ ls /mnt/qnap
smb-share:server=qnap,share=transfer

Is there a better way to do this? What am I missing?

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  • Have you tried to go inside this directory - cd /mnt/qnap/smb-share:server=qnap,share=transfer?
    – pa4080
    Mar 20, 2018 at 21:42
  • Does /mnt/qnap exist?
    – fosslinux
    Mar 20, 2018 at 21:44
  • I didn't really try to go inside the directory, but I assume I could. I will when I get back to the computer. And /mnt/qnap does exit.
    – Mike Wise
    Mar 20, 2018 at 23:26
  • @pa4080 - yes I could go into that directory.
    – Mike Wise
    Mar 21, 2018 at 9:22
  • Seems to work the way I want it when the directory /mnt/qnap is not pre-existing, but now I can't get rid of the previous symlink which has the name I want ... grrrr.
    – Mike Wise
    Mar 21, 2018 at 9:24

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Okay - I learned three things.

  1. The answer to my question above was to not pre-create the directory in /mnt - @ubashu hinted at this in the comments.
  2. But what I really wanted to do was have the smb share mounted at start as per this link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
  3. And for me that only works if you add a ver=2.0 to the mount smb initialization string as per this post CIFS Host is down
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