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I'm trying to have two network shares automatically mount upon rebooting my machine but I'm having no luck. I've read through several similar AskUbuntu questions but I can't seem to get it to mount the shares on rebooting. This is my current configuration:

/etc/fstab:

//192.168.1.18/FileDepot    /mnt/FileDepot  cifs    credentials=/home/user1/.credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,user,sec=ntlm    0   0
//192.168.1.18/Incoming     /mnt/Incoming   cifs    credentials=/home/user1/.credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,user,sec=ntlm    0   0

In my home folder, I have the .credentials file:

username=user1
password=mypass

As I mentioned, this will not autmatically mount the shares on a reboot, but if I manually run:

sudo mount -a

it works.

I'm running Xubuntu 15.10 x64. Any idea what I'm doing wrong or missing?

ifconfig output:

enp0s25   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 54:ee:75:4d:ec:01  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:20 Memory:f1200000-f1220000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:443 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:443 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:40169 (40.1 KB)  TX bytes:40169 (40.1 KB)

wlp4s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 34:02:86:42:e4:06  
          inet addr:192.168.1.78  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3602:86ff:fe42:e406/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1960 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1324170 (1.3 MB)  TX bytes:723204 (723.2 KB)`

cat /etc/network/interfaces:

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Here is some output from dmesg:

[    5.077816] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[    5.077818] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[    5.078083] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101
[    5.078666] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[    5.078836] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101
[    5.080887] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation.
[    5.081008] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101

I've tried using ethernet and no wifi, but that didn't help. I'm not sure where to go with this now.

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can you give me the out put of "ifconfig" and "cat /etc/network/interfaces" – Neil Oct 24 '15 at 23:39
    
@Neil I updated the question with the information you requested. – drohm Oct 25 '15 at 0:20
    
did you rename those interfaces to wlp4s0 and enp0s25 – Neil Oct 25 '15 at 0:45
    
I didn't edit them, no. This is a clean install I did a couple days ago when 15.10 was released. – drohm Oct 25 '15 at 0:48
    
can you check if 70-persistent-net.rules file exists run "ls /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" if it exist can you post what is in the file. – Neil Oct 25 '15 at 0:56
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I've been able to solve the problem on my system by adding x-systemd.automount, to the list of options in my fstab entry. I was seeing the same problem with Raspbian Jessie (from Wheezy) which led me to a forum post.

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Thanks Matt. I'd give you an up-vote, but I don't have the rep yet. – drohm Dec 6 '15 at 16:45
    
Hi, could you give a more comprehensive answer? In which way and how shall you edit the file /etc/fstab? You just add a line with x-systemd.automount ? – João Pimentel Ferreira Oct 21 '17 at 20:02
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This seems to apply to NFS as well as Samba. A bug has been logged for NFS shares and I'm seeing the same behaviour with either type.

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Do you have an encrypted $HOME? If so, it's NOT mounted at boot time. Try placong your credentials= files on some directory that IS available at boot time.

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I didn't explicitly ask for my home folder to be encrypted so I don't believe it is. I also tried specifying username and password in /etc/fstab to bypass having it look for the file and it still doesn't mount on reboot. – drohm Oct 25 '15 at 16:33
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The system will attempt to mount everything in /etc/fstab before networking comes up. This will cause mounting of the network shares to fail. You can add _netdev to the options of your network mounts to tell the system to only try mounting them after networking is available. Like this:

//192.168.1.18/FileDepot    /mnt/FileDepot  cifs    credentials=/home/user1/.credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,user,sec=ntlm,_netdev    0   0
//192.168.1.18/Incoming     /mnt/Incoming   cifs    credentials=/home/user1/.credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,user,sec=ntlm,_netdev    0   0
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I've tried that, but it still doesn't mount. – drohm Oct 25 '15 at 2:56
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ah there’s your problem you need to add wlp4s0 to /etc/network/interfaces Edit /etc/network/interfaces

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

add 

iface lo inet loopback
auto wlp4s0

and reboot.

you need Regenerate 70-persistent-net.rules file.

run 

sudo udevadm trigger

and 

sudo udevadm trigger --action=add

and then reboot.

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Thought that was it, but it didn't work on reboot. I can still do sudo mount -a and it will mount the shares without error. I just can't get it to mount on startup. – drohm Oct 25 '15 at 0:41
    
No change after reboot. What does that command actually do? – drohm Oct 25 '15 at 1:50
    
it Regenerates 70-persistent-net.rules file that file gives your interface name for your NIC's. – Neil Oct 25 '15 at 1:56
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Maybe I'm missing something but don't you just need to add the auto option to the mount options? Of I'm not mistaken the default is noauto.

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I tried this and unfortunately it didn't work. – drohm Oct 25 '15 at 0:20

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