Mounting SMB shares fails both ways, fstab and systemd
For ages I used to mount SMB shares on my NAS with an simple entry in /etc/fstab:
And all was fine, in Ubuntu, Debian, EndeavorOS. But with Bazzite, it mounts but gives the well known and yet totally cryptic
I tried to set up a mount in systemd, but it is either
Is there any way around this and make it work like it used to in the good old days?
//192.168.2.2/uXXX /home/xxx/mnt/uXXX cifs vers=2.0,credentials=/home/xxx/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 1And all was fine, in Ubuntu, Debian, EndeavorOS. But with Bazzite, it mounts but gives the well known and yet totally cryptic
"This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported."I tried to set up a mount in systemd, but it is either
"The directory /home/xxx/mnt/sData is specified as the mount point (second field in /etc/fstab or Where= field in systemd unit file) and is not empty.""home-xxx-mnt-uXXX.mount: Mount path /home/xxx/mnt/uXXX is not canonical (contains a symlink)."Is there any way around this and make it work like it used to in the good old days?
Solution
/home is symlinked from /var/home. Try the full path for systemd. For the fstab mount, you probably need to set the right ownership and permissions for the folder and credentials.
