I was focusing on my 17.10 system as I tinkered with systemd automounts. My goal was to have my CIFS share automount, much like AutoFS does. This was accomplished on 17.10 with the following configs (via pastebin) and everything works fine. No issues to report. http://paste.ubuntu.com/26062465/
I copied those unit files to my wife's 17.10 system. In half a minute I was up and running. No issues.
I copied those unit files to my 16.04 system. Hours later, I still can't get it to work. The status of the service says it's active and waiting. Green light. Everything looks good to go. But when I navigate to that share with either Nautilus or via CD'ing to it in terminal, it just hangs -- forever. For kicks I tried the same thing on another laptop I have running Ubuntu Mate 16.04. Same exact scenario there.
I've gone over the unit files and cannot figure out where the crossup is. The only difference I'm seeing is 16.04 has systemd version 229, and 17.10 has systemd version 234. Could this be the difference? I had trouble when searching to see if there was an explicit version of systemd that implemented the particular functionality (automount) I'm after.
Anybody have any guesses or insight?
One last thing to confirm -- yes, cifs-utils is installed.
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