Mount NAS device

[bill-lancaster]

My WD MyCloud device can be mounted using:-

sudo mount -t cifs -o ,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0644,rw,soft //192.168.xx.xx/Public  /media/mycloud

As you can see its a CIFS system. The NAS device is password corrected.
How can I best make this mount at boot time?

[sithlord48]

add a line to you /etc/fstab

more info here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

If possible you should use NFS to share with linux as it is much faster.

[bill-lancaster]

Thanks - that has done the trick!

[bill-lancaster]

Oh dear! Should have checked more thoroughly before going on holiday!

~$ sudo mount -a

produces:
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

my fstab looks like this:-

//192.168.1.109 /media/mycloud cifs credentials=/home/bill/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

I've clearly have an error in the fstab but have tried many varaiations to no effect

Any help would be welcome

[oshunluvr]

Try

//192.168.1.109/Public /media/mycloud cifs credentials=/home/bill/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

[oshunluvr]

Also worth knowing, the command:

smbclient -L 192.168.1.109

should result is a list of all available shares on the NAS along with Server hostname and Workgroup

[bill-lancaster]

Thanks

mount error(22): Invalid argument

is the result

CODE]smbclient -L 192.168.1.109[/CODE] shows that 'Public' is a share name

Here's the result

Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.9]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
Public Disk MusicLibrary
SmartWare Disk
TimeMachineBackup Disk
WDSync Disk
MusicLibrary Disk wl
CompaqDisc Disk total b/u
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (WDMyCloud)
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.9]

Server Comment
--------- -------
USER
WDMYCLOUD WDMyCloud

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
WORKGROUP USER

[bill-lancaster]

This mounts the drive successfully:

:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o ,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0644,rw,soft //192.168.1.109/Public  /media/mycloud

perhaps this might help!

[oshunluvr]

Anything in the output of dmseg or in /var/log/kern.log relating to the mount?

[bill-lancaster]

Did you mean dmesg
Here's the last few lines:-
:~$ dmesg
[ 122.136329] logitech-djdevice 0003:046D:C52B.0005: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:2011] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3:2
[ 217.004290] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 301.199148] FS-Cache: Loaded
[ 301.222838] FS-Cache: Netfs 'cifs' registered for caching
[ 301.222924] Key type cifs.spnego registered
[ 301.222935] Key type cifs.idmap registered
[ 301.335370] CIFS VFS: Malformed UNC in devname.
[16530.726710] perf samples too long (2559 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
[18559.457136] CIFS VFS: Malformed UNC in devname.
[18614.243291] CIFS VFS: Malformed UNC in devname.

Does this mean anything?

Can't see a kern.log at the moment

Thanks

[oshunluvr]

UNC means "Uniform Naming Convention" so it's saying there's something wrong with the name or an option.

First, make sure you have cifs-utils installed. It's needed to provide mount.cifs to the system and is not installed by default.

Second, verify your mount location is accessible by you. /media is usually reserved for removable media mounts and the default mounting convention would be /media/bill/<whatever> not directly under /media. There's nothing wrong with doing it this way, but your user doesn't have write access to /media so that could be the issue.

If those 2 items aren't the issue; I don't normally mount CIFS shares myself, so I tried this in my fstab:

//192.168.1.250/Media /mnt/network cifs username=<mysambausername>,password=<mysambapassword> 0 0

and it worked. So if you already have cifs-tools installed, try removing all the options from your fstab, manually entering your username and password and no other options and attempting a mount. If it works, look at your credentials file and make sure it's correct. If so, try it again but without the iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm options (they're defaults anyway).

I don't know how versed you are to all this type of editing, but here's a suggestion to speed things up: Open fstab with by typing ALT-F2 and putting "kdesudo kate /etc/fstab" in krunner. This will open a password pop-up - enter your sudo password. Then open a terminal and put the windows (kate and terminal) side-by-side. Then edit fstab and save. Then go to the terminal and type "sudo mount /media/mycloud" If you get no errors, type "ls /media/mycloud" and see if it's mounted. If you get errors, or it's not mounted, you can re-edit fstab and try something else. Having the terminal open will let you see errors and quickly run dmesg quickly.

[bill-lancaster]

Changed fstab as suggested and it works.
Incidentally, CIF-UTILS was installed and I had access to the /media folder
Many thanks again