I managed to solve the problem, thanks to your help. I modified the fstab configuration line to include this: sec=ntlm so it looks like this now: //192.168.0.100/c/pi /media/share cifs sec=ntlm,username=myusername,password=mypassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Apparently it has to do with ...