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I've got an RPI running Ubuntu server 18.04 and have set up a samba server there to share /home/user/sambashare. I used these instructions to get that up and running.

In the same network I have an old computer, also running Ubuntu server 18.04, and I would like to mount that sambashare to /media/share permanently.

I've installed cifs-utils on this old computer and added the following line to the /etc/fstab:

/pi_name/home/user/sambashare /media/share cifs uid=0, credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0,nounix 0 0

Of course, .smbcredentials contain the username and password.

But all I get when I try to sudo mount -a is mount error(2): No such file or directory

I am a Linux novice and I have spent the best part of two days browsing through various tutorials with these subjects, but I can no get this working. Any tips that could put me on the right track?

Jonas__G
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You have a couple of syntax errors there when specifying the network address of the share.

[1] It has to start with double slashes //

[2] And it's //server/share not //server/internal/path/to/shared/folder.

So replace /pi_name/home/user/sambashare with //pi_name/sambashare

And make sure /media/share exists.

And more of a side note: Accessing a host by name ( netbios name ) is kinda flakey so you might want to access it by ip address ( //192.168.0.100/sambashare for example ) or if this is a Linux, MacOS, or Win10 host by it's mDNS name ( //pi_name.local/sambashare )

Morbius1
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  • Thanks a billion! [1] was actually a copy/paste error - I had that one. But [2] was not on my radar at all! Not quite sure if I understand why accessing by host name is scetchy - but I'm sure your right and have made a mental note of that :-D Thanks again, sir! – Jonas__G Mar 02 '20 at 07:55