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I would like to mount a NAS automatically during start up, and have inserted the following line in /etc/fstab:
mount -t cifs -o username=xxxxxx,password=xxxxxx //nas8d5ec9.local/public/ /mnt/qnap_backup
The script does not mount the NAS. However, when I just cut and paste the mount code into a terminal it works as intended.
What do I need to add and/or change?
The format for mounting cifs shares via /etc/fstab is:
//servername/sharename /media/windowsshare cifs username=msusername,password=mspassword,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
There is a article about mounting cifs in linux on wiki.ubuntu.com: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
//nas8d5ec9.local/public/ /mnt/qnap_backup cifs guest,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0 to the fstab file. Then, sudo mount -av gives mount error(13): Permission denied.
– Henk
May 5 '17 at 12:35
username= and password= parameters, as you used in your manual mount. Maybe guest doesn't work.
– Soren A
May 5 '17 at 18:28
/etc/fstabis not a script - it's a configuration file with a very specific format – steeldriver May 5 '17 at 12:04