Can't write to NAS

[Jakosaur]

I've got my Raspberry Pi to run a Plex Media Server and I've got all my media stored on a NAS. I've edited /etc/fstab/ to mount the NAS to a directory on my Desktop and I can see all the files on my NAS.

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//192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/MyBookLive cifs username=Plex,password=raspberry 0 0

I now need to be able to write to my NAS using my Raspberry Pi but I can't even create a folder. Just says Permission Denied. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks

[DougieLawson]

Change it to

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//192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/MyBookLive cifs uid=pi,gid=pi,username=Plex,password=raspberry 0 0

[Jakosaur]

Change it to

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//192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/MyBookLive cifs uid=pi,gid=pi,username=Plex,password=raspberry 0 0

Thanks for the reply. I've changed it to that and now it isn't even mounting on boot.

[DougieLawson]

You may need to put the numeric uid and gid values in the fstab line

awk -F":" '/pi/ {print "uid="$3",gid="$4}' /etc/passwd

[Jakosaur]

You may need to put the numeric uid and gid values in the fstab line

awk -F":" '/pi/ {print "uid="$3",gid="$4}' /etc/passwd

Thanks for that. Where would I put that line? Sorry, first time doing this.

[KLL]

Where abouts in the line would I put that?

that is a command line you are supposed to execute in terminal and it will open the file
/etc/passwd for you, find the line start with user name: pi
separate the line by all that ':' to find, give back the 3d and 4th occurrance in a nice to read/understand
uid= gid= text string.

so if you just do / execute in terminal / a
cat /etc/passwd
you can read the line for pi and find the 2 numbers you are supposed to use in your fstab line
like uid=1000,gid=1000

still need to thank @DougieLawson because making that line for you is quite some effort.

[Jakosaur]

Where abouts in the line would I put that?

that is a command line you are supposed to execute in terminal and it will open the file
/etc/passwd for you, find the line start with user name: pi
separate the line by all that ':' to find, give back the 3d and 4th occurrance in a nice to read/understand
uid= gid= text string.

so if you just do / execute in terminal / a
cat /etc/passwd
you can read the line for pi and find the 2 numbers you are supposed to use in your fstab line
like uid=1000,gid=1000

still need to thank @DougieLawson because making that line for you is quite some effort.

Thanks for that explanation. The 2 numbers were both 1000 so I put them in my fstab line and it still doesn't mount on boot sadly.

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//192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/MyBookLive cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,username=Plex,password=raspberry 0 0

[KLL]

back to the original / working fstab line

I can see all the files on my NAS.

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//192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/MyBookLive cifs username=Plex,password=raspberry 0 0

i have one question? sure the NAS has the password raspberry?
( because there should not be the RPI user pi password??? )

[Jakosaur]

back to the original / working fstab line

I can see all the files on my NAS.

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//192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/MyBookLive cifs username=Plex,password=raspberry 0 0

i have one question? sure the NAS has the password raspberry?
( because there should not be the RPI user pi password??? )

Yes. I setup the account previously and can access the NAS via Windows using those credentials. For some reason now that original fstab line doesn't work.

I can manually mount the drive using

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sudo mount -t cifs -o username=Plex,password=raspberry //192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/MyBookLive

Found that command line on another forum. Still doesn't give me write access. Not sure if that is any help but that seems to work. Just really want it to mount at boot.

[Ernst]

This is what I have entered in the /etc/fstab:

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//raspi1/hdd1   /mnt/raspi1     cifs    user=pi,password='',x-systemd.automount  0 0

[Jakosaur]

This is what I have entered in the /etc/fstab:

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//raspi1/hdd1   /mnt/raspi1     cifs    user=pi,password='',x-systemd.automount  0 0

Thanks for that. I've got it automatically mounting again using

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//192.168.1.2/PlexContent /home/pi/Desktop/NAS cifs username=Plex,password=raspberry,x-systemd.automount 0 0

I am mounting it to a different directory now. Any idea how to give write permissions as I just get 'permission denied' even when I am trying to make a directory?

[DougieLawson]

You have to set the uid=1000 and gid=1000 on your mount. Simple.