How to Set "<options>" in fstab - Manual Mounting is Successfull

Question

I am not real familiar with fstab yet, so I have a couple questions. When I use this command to mount devices:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=admin //192.168.1.134/share_name /mnt/share_name

With passwords: sudo="local user password" password="password for device"

How do I translate that into an fstab entry? So far, I have tried this in the fstab and mounting fails:

//192.168.1.134/share_name  /mnt/share_name  cifs  default  0  0

This is where the question comes in. Where I have default, should there be something instead, indicating username=admin, etc?

Solution 1

You should have something along the lines of:

//192.168.1.134/share_name /mnt/share_name cifs username=server_user,password=server_password,_netdev 0 0
^ Path to your share       ^ Mountpoint                  ^ Username           ^ Password      ^ See note A

Note A:
The _netdev options makes sure the mount is only attempted AFTER a network connection has been established.

Solution 2

The ordering of an FSTab file is: device name mount point fs-type options dump-freq pass-num; each item separated by whitespace.

For the example you gave, the FSTab entry would be:

//192.168.1.134/share_name /mnt/share_name cifs username=admin,password=? 0 0

(obviously replacing ? with the correct password)

If you want to learn more about FSTab, check out the FSTab Wikipedia article.

Comments

[nicorellius]

cool, trying now - what is the _netdev piece?

[Zaz]

Extra options can then be added such as the _netdev option suggested by BloodPhilia.

[Pylsa]

@nocerellios see Note A in my answer.

[Zaz]

+1 for mentioning the _netdev option; it's very important for automatically mounting network drives.