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dcaspar

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Registered: 2020-08-12

Posts: 51

Automounting Windows share via fstab

Hey all,

I'm having some issues auto-mounting a remote windows directory on boot.
I've added the following to my fstab file

//192.168.0.3/Users /mnt/x280 cifs _netdev,username=mywindowsuser,password=thepassword 0 0

It seems to be working, as if I run sudo mount -a -v I can see the windows directory being successfully mounted and I'm able to navigate to it at my mount point.

It is not automounting on boot though. The filesystem does not show until I run mount.
I have enabled both systemd-networkd-wait-online.service and NetworkManager-wait-online.service as suggested in the wiki page.

Any clues on how to troubleshoot this would be great.
Thanks.

Sffred

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Registered: 2020-08-30

Posts: 50

Re: Automounting Windows share via fstab

Maybe you can use dmesg to see system journals since startup and look for logs about fsck.

cowlick

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Registered: 2013-10-13

Posts: 73

Re: Automounting Windows share via fstab

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=276519/

Last edited by cowlick (2020-09-19 23:56:32)

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,268

Re: Automounting Windows share via fstab

I have enabled both systemd-networkd-wait-online.service and NetworkManager-wait-online.service as suggested in the wiki page.

You have both systemd-networkd and NetworkManager enabled?

Any clues on how to troubleshoot this would be great.

Systemd#Checking_status works with .mount units.
Systemd/Journal