Hello Linux gang! Hopefully this is a quick one and I’ll feel like a goober after. I am trying to mount a network share on a new VM. On my first VM, this seemed to work flawlessly. Here is the fstab entry for the working VM:
//192.168.1.186/gilashare /home/marighost/gilashare cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/marighost/.sharelogin,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,x-systemd.automount,_netdev 0 0
The permissions for the .sharelogin are chmod’d to be 600.
In the .sharelogin itself, I can assure you that my username and password are correct, however, my password does contain a semicolon, if that matters at all (it doesn’t seem to for VM 1).
I copied these over 1:1 into my new VM, and get the following error:
mount: /home/marighost/gilashare: cannot mount //192.168.1.186/gilashare read-only. dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
So I check dmesg | less and see:
`[565649.948728] CIFS: enabling forceuid mount option implicitly because uid= option is specified
[565649.948730] CIFS: enabling forcegid mount option implicitly because gid= option is specified
[565649.948731] CIFS: Attempting to mount //192.168.1.186/gilashare
[565649.950091] CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13’
In searching for the solution for that return code (which doesn’t really seem to map to a specific error), it seems like it’s just “your password’s wrong.” But I can assure you that it isn’t. .sharelogin on VM 2 has the same text and permissions as the file in VM 1. The fstab entries are identical. The mount points exist, each VM can see the share server and ping the IP.
I even tried mounting the share via the standard mount command with the following:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.186/gilashare /home/marighost/gilashare -o username=marighost,password=[REDACTED]
I mentioned earlier that my password contains a semicolon (;), which seems to effect Bash in ways I don’t fully understand. I wrapped my password in the CLI with apostrophes (‘’), and the command takes, but nothing happens. Checking dmesg just shows [] CIFS: Attempting to mount //192.168.1.186/gilashare with no errors, and the drive still does not mount.
I thank you for reading and taking the time to respond.
SOLVED EDIT: Remember to update your packages, folks. The Samba package was out of date on the file server. The reason VM1 worked is because they had the same package version. VM2 had the newer version.