1

I am trying to mount 5 samba shares on my machine and I keep getting the same 5 errors:

mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 16 -- ignored
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 17 -- ignored
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 18 -- ignored
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 19 -- ignored
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 20 -- ignored

Here are the lines in question from my /etc/fstab file:

//10.0.0.23/Documents "/home/alex/Network Shares/Documents" cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
"//10.0.0.23/Family Pictures" "/home/alex/Network Shares/Family Pictures" cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
//10.0.0.23/Scripts "/home/alex/Network Shares/Scripts" cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
//10.0.0.23/Shared "/home/alex/Network Shares/Shared" cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
//10.0.0.23/Torrents "/home/alex/Network Shares/Torrents" cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0

Any help would be appreciated.

akrantz
  • 113

1 Answers1

6

Your spaces should be replaced with \040 in the fstab so it aught to look like:

//10.0.0.23/Documents home/alex/Network\040Shares/Documents cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
//10.0.0.23/Family\040Pictures /home/alex/Network\040Shares/Family\040Pictures cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
//10.0.0.23/Scripts /home/alex/Network\040Shares/Scripts cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
//10.0.0.23/Shared /home/alex/Network\040Shares/Shared cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0
//10.0.0.23/Torrents /home/alex/Network\040Shares/Torrents cifs credentials=/home/alex/.smbcredentials,uid=user,gid=group 0 0

See:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/fstab-space-in-mount-point-directory-names-846362/

George Udosen
  • 36,677