[Blind-sysadmins] Re: Mounting a Networked Drive on Debin 11 or 12

Hi, Andrew: Good advice. But so far, I can't get the old commands to work. What's changed? I've tried installing cifs-utils and nfs-server-utils, but before I go editing the /etc/exports file and building that into nfs-server-utils' configs, I thought I'd better ask in here to get it right at least the second time, not the twenty-second. On 9/11/2023 1:47 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

Hi.

I have this working using Cifs-Utils on Ubuntu 22.04. I always get the syntax correct using the mount command first, then happy with the results move it to fstab.

Andrew.

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Matzura Sent: Monday, September 11, 2023 5:55 PM To:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Mounting a Networked Drive on Debin 11 or 12

I'm just about to upgrade to Debian 12, but if I could get this answered for 11, especially if it's the same on 12, I'd be happy.

I used to do this on Debian 8, but apparently things have changed. No surprise there, but I can't figure out from research exactly what the change is.

The following line in /etc/fstab worked on Debian 8:

//192.168.1.156/BigVol1 /mnt/bigvol1 cifs _netdev,username=<the-username>,password=<the-password>,ro 0 0

After a reboot, the directory /mnt/bigvol1 is there, but not the resource to which it points. Should I be using cifs-utils and using its fstab syntax?