Ubuntu 20.04 - need help with mounting Windows Server NFS

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Hello everyone!

I’m in need of help with mounting my shared network drive folder (located on my WS2016 computer) to my Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Let’s say I have a folder I want to share that is located at Network path \WS2016\Folders\Folder 1.
In my Ubuntu server I have made a mounting folder located at /mnt/shares.

I’ve installed apt get install cifs-utils.

When I do sudo mount.cifs //WS2016/Folders/Folder 1 /mnt/shares username=nextcloud,password=password I get asked for root password. It gives me error 13 (permission denied). I tried using WS2016 Administrator account and still got error.

Hopefully you can help me. Thanks for reading.

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1.) If you use a space at “Folder 1” you must escape it.
2.) Use the option “-o” for username and password

sudo mount.cifs //WS2016/Folders/Folderwithoutspaceorescaped -o username=nextcloud,password=password /mnt/shares

If all works use automount in /etc/fstab
http://timlehr.com/auto-mount-samba-cifs-shares-via-fstab-on-linux/

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I got mounting to work, used:
sudo mount.cifs //192.168.10.101/Users/User1/Documents/Jagatud -o credentials=/.smbcredentials /mnt/shares
Now I try to automate this by adding this to /etc/fstab
//192.168.10.101/Users/User1/Documents/Jagatud /mnt/shares cifs credentials=/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0 this is not working for some reason. When I do sudo mount -a I get error.

Unable to select appropriate authentication method!
Send error in SessSetup = -22
cifs_mount failed w/return code = -2
No such file or directory.

Any ideas?

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Do you really use the file .smbcredentials in path / ?

Test:
sudo /.smbcredentials

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Yes, I do have a file for credentials.

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I got it to work, I had to change the command into //192.168.10.101/Users/User1/Documents/Jagatud /mnt/shares cifs credentials=/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlmssp 0 0 (sec=ntlmssp instead of ntlm). Now I have to check what’s the difference. :stuck_out_tongue: