Mounting SMB share on Ubuntu 19.04

Question

I am having difficulty in mounting a Seagate freeagent USB external drive in Ubuntu 19.04. The drive is attached to a HG635 router at 192.168.1.1.
I'm able to view the shared directory using 'files' and can see the smb: location, smb://super%20router/share/

I've created a local directory for the mount, /mnt/HG635.

The output from sudo smbclient -L //192.168.1.1 is

    Sharename       Type      Comment
    ---------       ----      -------
    IPC$            IPC       IPC Service ()
    share           Disk      linux
Reconnecting with SMB1 for workgroup listing.

    Server               Comment
    ---------            -------
    SUPER ROUTER         

    Workgroup            Master
    ---------            -------
    WORKGROUP            SUPER ROUTER

The output from sudo smbtree is

WORKGROUP
    \\SUPER ROUTER          
        \\SUPER ROUTER\share            linux
        \\SUPER ROUTER\IPC$             IPC Service ()

I've added the following line to fstab

//192.168.1.1/share /mnt/HG635 cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

When I run sudo mount -a the response is

mount error(2): No such file or directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I get the same response when trying to mount the drive from the command line using sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/share /mnt/HG635/

I have the latest version of cifs & cifs-utils installed.

I also tried gio mount smb://super%20router/share and the response was

gio: smb://super%20router/share/: Location is already mounted

Solution

I don't have your router but I suspect it is running an old dialect of smb.

Add vers=1.0 to your list of options:

//192.168.1.1/share /mnt/HG635 cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0 0 0

In addition it may also require an earlier security mode which would be another option: sec=ntlm

Comments

[SkaveRat]

I was having trouble mounting my rather old OpenMediaVault SMB share after upgrading to ubuntu 20.04 - adding vers=1.0 worked for me! thanks