I am trying to get a samba drive auto mounted when I login to my computer. With my current fstab file: //freenas.local/Audio/ /mnt/freenas1/Audio cifs user=alex,password=topsecret,_netdev,nofail,x-system.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,x-systemd.after=network-o…

If you can provide: the output of mount | grep cifs the content of /etc/fstab (SMB entry) ls -ld /path/to/mountpoint Someone her might be able to tell if you have incorrect CIFS mount options, an issue with the ownership of the mount point, samba server-side permissions issues or a KDE/Dolphin au…

You could try SMB instead of CIFS, or maybe try NFS? [image] Music players don't seem to like smb:// links Issues & Assistance Mounting my syno share using: mount -t cifs and adding a link: ln -s /mnt/synology_share/music ~/Music Works fine in the Strawberry …

output of mount | grep cifs no output (this seems like an issue…) the content of /etc/fstab (SMB entry) //freenas.local/Audio/ /mnt/freenas1/Audio cifs user=alex,password=topsecret,_netdev,nofail,x-system.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout= 30,x-systemd.after=net…

Samba drive not auto mounting, then when manually mounted no write permissions

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IvanAT May 30, 2026, 9:34am 3

You could try SMB instead of CIFS, or maybe try NFS?