Trying to mount a network folder on boot. After fstab edit pi locks on reboot.

[Edwardnzz]

Hi all!
My goal is to have my shared network folder mount on boot.

This is the path in windows:
\\READYSHARE\mynas

I created a folder:

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Sudo Mkdir /media/mynas

Then set permissions:

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Sudo chmod 777 /media/mynas

Than tried to mount("READYSHARE" did not work):

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sudo mount //192.168.1.99/mynas /media/mynas

I got:
Password for root@//192.168.1.99/mynas: *********
I entered the password and the folder was mounted(Yay!) :
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 29G 1.4G 27G 5% /
devtmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2.0G 8.5M 1.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 52M 201M 21% /boot
tmpfs 391M 0 391M 0% /run/user/1000
//192.168.1.99/mynas 299G 99M 298G 1% /media/mynas

So I know I could mount the network drive pretty easily.

I umounted the drive and tried to mount it again like this:

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sudo mount -o username=pi,password=Raspberry //192.168.1.99/mynas /media/mynas

That was successful as well.

But then i tried to edit fstab to get the drive to mount on boot:

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//192.168.1.99/mynas /media/mynas auto username=pi,password=Raspberry,workgroup=WORKGROUP,users,auto,user_xattr 0 0

When I reboot, I get this:
cannot open access to console the root account is locked see sulogin 8 man page for more details.

I press enter and it just displays the same message.

So I'm going to reload the Raspbian image and try again and maybe some kind soul out there could give me the code for fstab I need to make it work.

I would like all user and group access and R/W access.

Being very unfamiliar with linux, it took me weeks to get to this point. If I could get this to work I would be ecstatic!
Thanks!

[dustnbone]

Here's what I use to mount Windows shares in fstab

//192.168.1.85/dump /home/pi/dump/ cifs username=user,password=pass,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,automount

It works, it's probably not "correct" but I hate SMB so much that as soon as it works I stop playing with it.

[jj_0]

To test changes to /etc/fstab, unmount (if mounted) the newly added drive an then execute:

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mount --all

This helps to see if there are any errors. However normally if the system can't mount an fstab entry during bootup you will be dumped into a maintenance console so your error message might point to something else.
Also, adding 'nofail' to the options of your fstab entry will tell the system it's OK if it can't mount the share during startup.

You could try editing the fstab from another PC if you have one.

Also this thread might help you.

[LTolledo]

here is my version of mounting my NAS shares

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//192.168.211.205/HDD1    /mnt/RPi3BpNAS   cifs   credentials=/root/.cifuser,nofail,vers=1.0,x-systemd.automount 0 0  

where the userid and password are stored in a hidden file /root/.cifuser

if you want to force specific user/group privileges you may do it this way

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//192.168.211.205/HDD1    /mnt/RPi3BpNAS   cifs   credentials=/root/.cifuser,userid=username,gid=groupname,nofail,vers=1.0,x-systemd.automount 0 0  

[thagrol]

In my experience adding "_netdev,nofail" to the mount options usually sorts this out.

"_netdev" tells systemd that it;'s a network device and to not attempt to mount it until the network is ready.

"nofail" means don't stop boot if the mount fails. The device won't be mounted but, unless it's the device containing the root partition, your Pi will still boot.

I strongly advise inculding "nofail" when messing with /etc/fstab especially when trying to mount USB or network devices that may not be present on every boot.

To fix your broken fstab you'll need another linux PC (windows can't mount the ext4 root partition). This can be another Pi, another SD card in the same Pi, a desktop/laptop with linux installed, or a desktop/laptop running linux from a live CD/DVD/USB.

[Edwardnzz]

Success (YAY!!)
I want to respond with all the steps in order just in case someone happens to have a similar problem on their Raspberry Pi 4.
1. Being I couldn't log in, I reformatted and flashed the memory card with the Raspbian lite image file using Etcher.
2. inserted the drive, logged in, configured my network.
3. Did all the updates/upgrades.
4. Made the Directory:

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mkdir /media/mynAS

5. To add credentials I gave myself root access:

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sudo su 

Edited the .cifuser:

sudo nano /root/.cifuser

Then typed:
username=me
password=mycomplexpassword
(Thank you LTolledo)

Then hit Ctrl + x then y and enter.

5. Changed user back to Pi

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su pi 

6. Edited fstab:

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sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add the line above the # symbol:

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=6c586e13-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=6c586e13-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
//192.168.1.99/mynas    /media/mynas   cifs   credentials=/root/.cifuser,_netdev,nofail,vers=1.0,x-systemd.automount 0 0
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that

Made sure i used "_netdev" (Thanks thagrol) in the options.

Then hit Ctrl + x then y and enter.
7. Tested the Fstab:

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mount --all 

( thanks jj_0 )

8. Verified that I could access network directory.

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cd /media/mynas

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ls -la

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total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Nov 13 17:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 17:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Nov 13 17:44 test
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Nov 13 17:45 test2

(Yay!)

Added a folder in the Network directory:

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sudo mkdir pictures

9. Rebooted

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sudo reboot

Once rebooted,(No problem rebooting!) I did another ls command:

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ls -la

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total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Nov 14 18:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 17:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Nov 14 18:43 pictures
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Nov 13 17:44 test
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Nov 13 17:45 test2

(YEAAAA!!!)

This is and will continue to be a cool learning experience.
Thank you guys so much for your help. I truly appreciate it!

[jj_0]

Glad you got it to work, and thanks for reporting back.

[LTolledo]

Glad you had it working.....

however.... i noticed that the shares are owned by root

if you are logged in as let's say pi, those mounted shares will not be available to you, only to root.

its either you set ownership and access rights using chown and chmod

or specify the userid and groupid at fstab (the mounted shares will have the same user/group rights granted to the user specified in userid/groupid)

[Edwardnzz]

I did notice that I could could not add a subfolder under test or the pictures folder i made as pi. Could I use an allow all where the options are? What would that line look like in fstab?

I should add that I want to allow read write access by all or any program that may need to write in those network folders.

[thagrol]

its either you set ownership and access rights using chown and chmod

Given that it's a cifs/samba share being mounted chown and chmod are unlikely to do anything.

[thagrol]

I should add that I want to allow read write access by all or any program that may need to write in those network folders.

SImplest fix is to add

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umask=000

to your mount options to give full read/write/execute permissions to all users.

Make the change then

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sudo mount -o remount /media/mynAS

No need to reboot.

You should be aware though that the server has to allow write access else permissions on the Pi won't matter.

[Edwardnzz]

I'll try this weekend and post updates. Thanks again.
Btw, when you mention the server, do you mean the network folders im mounting? Because those are on a netgear readyshare thats open with no passwords to access.

[thagrol]

I'll try this weekend and post updates. Thanks again.
Btw, when you mention the server, do you mean the network folders im mounting? Because those are on a netgear readyshare thats open with no passwords to access.

Yep.

I don't have one of those so can't comment directly on it. In general for network folders you need three things set correctly to be able to write to it:

1. The server drive containging the shared folder has to be mounted read/write on the server (your netgear readyshare)
2. Permissions on the server on the sahred folders need to be set to allow write access.
3. The network folders need to be mounted rw (read/write) on the client (your Pi)
4. Local permissions on the cleint must allow writing for the local user attmpting to do so.

OK, that's four things

None of thse stages can provied write access if an earlier one denies it.

For cifs/samba permission are set at mount time, apply to the client only, are the same for all files and canot be changed with chmod or chown. Default permissions are to allow write access for the user mounting the network share (Defaults to root when mounting via fstab) and deny writing for eveyone else.

The above is the simple version. There's a lot I've left out as it either doesn't apply to or is unlikely to be supported by your readyshare.

[Edwardnzz]

So far, I've given full access to the network folders I'm interested in using.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 29G 2.5G 26G 9% /
devtmpfs 1.8G 0 1.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 16K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2.0G 113M 1.8G 6% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 52M 201M 21% /boot
tmpfs 391M 0 391M 0% /run/user/1000
//192.168.1.99/mynas 299G 99M 298G 1% /media/mynas

used chown to give R/W permissions:

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pi@raspberrypi:/media $ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 pi   pi   4096 Nov 16 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep 26 01:24 ..
drwxrwxrwx  1 pi   pi      0 Nov 16 21:47 mynas
pi@raspberrypi:/media $ cd mynas
pi@raspberrypi:/media/mynas $ ls -la
total 20
drwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi     0 Nov 16 21:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi  4096 Nov 16 20:24 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi     0 Nov 16 21:56 downloading
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 13515 Nov 16 21:11 lds-deploy-v3.sh
drwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi     0 Nov 16 21:45 sonarr
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi     0 Nov 16 21:47 sonarr_write_test.txt
drwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi     0 Nov 13 22:44 test
drwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi     0 Nov 13 22:45 test2

I think I have fstab setup?

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=6c586e13-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=6c586e13-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
//192.168.1.99/mynas    /media/mynas   cifs   credentials=/root/.cifuser,_netdev,nofail,vers=1.0,x-systemd.automount 0 0
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that

Yet when I installed sonarr and go to add new series, sonarr lets me browse to the folder , but wont add it.
when looking at the sonar log it says:
-- Path: Folder is not writable by user sonarr
I don't know what else to do. I have the user as pi for these folders.

In Sonarr,On the web gui, in settings - media management
Permissions
Set Permissions
File chmod mode
0644
Octal, applied to media files when imported/renamed by Sonarr
Folder chmod mode
0755
Octal, applied to series/season folders created by Sonarr
chown User
1000
Username or uid. Use uid for remote file systems.
chown Group
1000

This should match my pi:

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pi@raspberrypi:/media/mynas $ id
uid=1000(pi) gid=1000(pi) groups=1000(pi),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),60(games),100(users),105(input),109(netdev),997(gpio),998(i2c),999(spi)

I know I'm doing something wrong, I couldn't figure out where to put the unmask=000 command either.

[thagrol]

I know I'm doing something wrong, I couldn't figure out where to put the unmask=000 command either.

Try changing you fstab entry to

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//192.168.1.99/mynas    /media/mynas   cifs   credentials=/root/.cifuser,_netdev,nofail,vers=1.0,umask=000,x-systemd.automount 0 0

Without that change only the user "root" on the Pi will have write access.

[Edwardnzz]

Ok unmask seems to have caused a problem for me.
I cant access the mynas directory:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /media/mynas
bash: cd: /media/mynas: No such device
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /media
pi@raspberrypi:/media $ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 pi   pi   4096 Nov 16 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep 26 01:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Feb 14  2019 mynas

also tried the same as root user:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo su
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# cd /media/mynas
bash: cd: /media/mynas: No such device
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# cd /media
root@raspberrypi:/media# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  3 pi   pi   4096 Nov 16 20:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep 26 01:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Feb 14  2019 mynas
root@raspberrypi:/media#

My latest fstab update:

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=6c586e13-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=6c586e13-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
//192.168.1.99/mynas    /media/mynas   cifs   credentials=/root/.cifuser,_netdev,nofail,vers=1.0,umask=000,x-systemd.automount 0 0
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that

Yet, when I change the fstab back to what i had before, I can now access mynas directory:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /media/mynas
pi@raspberrypi:/media/mynas $

Could I be missing something else?

[thagrol]

Could I be missing something else?

Very possibly. However I don't use either the credentials= or the x-systemd.automount mount options. I've not found them necessary when mounting public samba/cifs/windows shares.

I'd try something like this to simplify things.

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//192.168.1.99/mynas    /media/mynas   cifs   defaults,_netdev,nofail,guest,vers=1.0,umask=000 0 0

• "defaults" is a just in case inclusion to ensure sensible values where you don't otherwise specify them.
• You only need a credentials file if your NAS restricts logins to particular (local to the NAS) users or needs a password which you've said it doesn't.
• "guest" means don't prompt for a password and try to login without one.
• Order is important for mount options. Later ones override earlier ones.

If you want to test that before modding your fstab and without a reboot try this:

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sudo umount /media/mynas
sudo mount -t cifs -o  defaults,_netdev,nofail,guest,vers=1.0,umask=000 //192.168.1.99/mynas /media/mynas

"sudo umount" may error if the share isn't already mounted. That can be ignored.


I'm not sure what other advice I can offer. Sorry.

[Edwardnzz]

Hey, Don't be sorry. You have been a great help. Even if this doesn't work for what I'm trying to do, I have learned so much about a operating system that I knew nothing about a few weeks ago. All good and I'm gonna keep pushing!