ah that solved the problem.

thanks a lot!

hi all. i need to use my raspberry pi as a display, which has to stay on for about 10 hours daily. however, though my testings, my raspberry pi screen does not stay on! the screen goes black after a few minutes. when it turns black, my lcd screen still recognizes that there is some sort of input, as...

this line worked like a charm!

//<NAS local ip>/autopublish /mnt/autopublish cifs vers=1.0,user=<user>,password=<password>,x-systemd.automount 0 0

thanks for the help guys

cheers!

ah i dont seem to be able to make the command run on start up.

this is whats in the last line of /etc/fstab

//<NAS local ip>/autopublish /mnt/autopublish cifs vers=1.0,user=<user>,password=<password> 0 0

it works when i try sudo mount -a, but doesnt run on start up.

please help

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