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ihitmani

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Registered: 2021-05-03

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[SOLVED]bad unit file setting cifs mount

I copied it from wiki, not sure why it does not work.

[Unit]
Description=Mount Share at boot

[Mount]
What=//hmara/julia
Where=/home/v/hmara
Options=_netdev,credentials=/home/v/.sys/hmara-creds,iocharset=utf8,rw
Type=cifs
TimeoutSec=30
ForceUnmount=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Last edited by ihitmani (2022-08-27 16:08:10)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]bad unit file setting cifs mount

not sure why it does not work

Nor are we.
The unit status might help to shed some light…

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ihitmani

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Registered: 2021-05-03

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Re: [SOLVED]bad unit file setting cifs mount

systemctl status mnt-hmara.mount
○ mnt-hmara.mount - Mount Share at boot
     Loaded: bad-setting (Reason: Unit mnt-hmara.mount has a bad unit file setting.)
     Active: inactive (dead)
      Where: /home/v/hmara
       What: //hmara/julia

авг 27 16:08:13 julia-acer-e5-575 systemd[1]: mnt-hmara.mount: Where= setting doesn't match unit name. Refusing.
авг 27 17:12:03 julia-acer-e5-575 systemd[1]: mnt-hmara.mount: Where= setting doesn't match unit name. Refusing.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]bad unit file setting cifs mount

The error message is pretty clear, isn't?
There's even an explicit note about that in the wiki where you copied the example from.

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