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brasas

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Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 25

(Solved) fstab not automounting cifs shares

The newest linux 3.8 update no longer supports ntlm, resulting in fstab no longer auto-mounting the cifs shares on my old buffalo tera-station. The workaround is to add "sec=ntlm" in fstab.

Example:

//10.1.10.50/share /mountpoint cifs sec=ntlm,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 0

Please note ntlm is NOT secure!

Last edited by brasas (2013-03-19 14:10:48)

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Beelzebud

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From: Illinois, U.S.

Registered: 2010-07-16

Posts: 154

Re: (Solved) fstab not automounting cifs shares

Yesterday my Arch installs stopped being able to access samba shares that I have set up in fstab as well.   I fixed them my adding the "sec=ntlm" to fstab as you suggested.   I'm hoping there is a bug fix in the works.  I'm not familiar with that variable, how is it not secure?

Last edited by Beelzebud (2013-03-20 18:43:39)

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: (Solved) fstab not automounting cifs shares

I have several cifs entries in my fstab:

//phoenix/share		/mnt/phoenix	cifs	noauto,uid=testing,gid=users,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials=/home/pcreds	0 0
//server/storage	/mnt/server	cifs	noauto,uid=testing,gid=users,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials=/home/screds	0 0
//vault/Operations/ 	/mnt/vault	cifs	noauto,uid=testing,gid=users,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,iocharset=iso8859-15,credentials=/home/vcreds 0 0

"Phoenix" is the only one I'm having issues with (and your suggestion fixes the issue). It's XP and the only one that I know for sure is updated regularly. "Server' is W2k3 Storage Server and it probably hasn't been updated in a while. "Vault" is some Ubuntu LTS I think, no idea about its update status.

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dif

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From: Stalowa Wola, Poland

Registered: 2009-12-22

Posts: 137

Re: (Solved) fstab not automounting cifs shares

Thank you very much. Your advice is a life saver.