Questions[cifs](ubuntu)

I have a CIFS network share mounted on /etc/fstab at boot on a laptop connected to the wireless network. My fstab looks like this:

//192.168.0.100/MyShare  /mnt/MyShare  cifs  username=<username>,password=<password>,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770,vers=3.0  0  0

Now, that normally works fine, but being a laptop, i move a lot and reconnect to my home wireless network quite often. This means that, when i leave the network, the share mount also disconnects, but when i get back home, it won't reconnect automatically so i need to "mount -a" every time this happens.

I'm looking for an option to automatically mount it on network getting available, or at least mounting automatically upon access (that is, when Dolphin or other file manager accesses the mount point, it should get remounted as root).

Is there any easy way to do this? Any best practice, maybe? Thanks!

Later edit: In the meantime, I found something that i would call a workaround, not a solution, so i'll keep the question opened:

• i created a script in /etc/network/if-up.d/<script> to be run upon connecting to my network:

#!/bin/bash
if iwconfig|grep -c <SSID>
then                                                         
        mount -a
fi

So now, when my connection becomes active, everything gets auto-mounted.

I’m having a problem with fstab on Server 18.04. I’m trying to mount a number of Windows Server network shares. If I put the username and password into each line of fstab and do sudo mount -a, it works fine. However, when I try to use a “credentials” file, it all goes pear-shaped.

So this:

//server/share /mount/point cifs ro,auto,user=user,password=password 0 0

…works fine.

However, if I try this:

//server/share /mount/point cifs ro,auto,credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials 0 0

…with .smbcredentials containing the following:

user=username  
password=password  
domain=domain  

…this does not work. sudo mount -a -v outputs the following:

/ : ignored  
/boot/efi : already mounted  
none : ignored  
domain=mydomain  
,prefixpath=Projects/XYZ,pass=********.168.1.10,unc=\server\share,user=username  
mount error(13): Permission denied  
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

168.1.10 is the partial IP address of the server on which the shares that I want to mount are located. It appears that the password is being concatenated onto the IP of the server.

So, what am I doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.

I want to mount share folder. Curren command line:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWD

Is it have some safe way (without permanent sudo and other). Any others utils?

If this is not possible in general, it will be enough for me to be able to mount only a certain shared folder to a certain place.

I have a server for development (Ubuntu 12.04). On that machine, I have a shared folder named "projects". I tried

sudo mount -t smbfs smb://192.168.2.28/projects/myProject /mnt/myProject

on my Ubuntu 11.10 and got the error:

Mounting cifs URL not implemented yet. Attempt to mount smb://192.168.2.28/projects/myProject.

How can I do to solve it? I need to mount the folder to use it with NetBeans.

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10, and am trying to mount a freenas server. I have the server set to share in cifs and nfs with no luck.

I have tried smbmount //192.168.1.### /mnt/

I am not new to Ubuntu but am nowhere near a power user, so I'd prefer a GUI option if available.

How do I mount a cifs share in 11.10?