How to Permanently Mount Network Drive in Linux the Proper Way

[@HunterGeophysicsAustralia]

Thank you; this was a great guide. Sufficiently-details and clear, but succinct too.

[@helpingninja]

Thank you very much! Have a nice day.

[@joshportelli]

THIS is EXACTLY what I have been looking for! Very clear, detailed, and concise explanation!

[@helpingninja]

Thank you. Glad to help my friend!

[@yippeethreeeight]

Excellent video. This gives me what I need to know, explains it just enough, without stuff I don't care about.

[@helpingninja]

Happy to hear it helped you 👍

[@SundanceBN]

Many thanks for the video. Very helpful. As a Windows user, I can't believe this is the way to connect a network share. This is a good example of why the normal computer user doesn't want to switch to Linux. It is a mess.

[@ronkierstead]

Windows is generally doing all of this in the background, and you get pretty GUI images like "Map Network Drive" but then the error messages are so cryptic that even pros have trouble finding out why it fails with Windows. If you want to go even easier, you are going to love MacIntosh systems. :) PS: Try running "net use" at the windows command prompt as the logged in user. It will list all your mapped drives to the console.

[@SundanceBN]

I know. I am a Systemadministrator. 🙂

[@EDoesIT]

Thanks for this guide! I've been working on rebuilding my Plex server all weekend with same issue as you trying to get the fstab lines right for my Synology shared drive. My biggest issue that I could not get past is spaces in my path, no matter what I tried to close the path I would get errors. I got around this by renaming my shared drive by removing the spaces but was still getting parsed errors. I came across your video and it fixed it!

[@helpingninja]

Glad I could be of help :-)

[@TommyViper]

I stumbled upon this video and I'm glad I did! My shares, while mounted and functional, the mount command was a bit different and it seemed like things lagged a bit. I followed these instructions and now my shares access seems so much faster and even restarting doesn't take a long time like it used to either. Great video!

[@Stiffy_the_magnificent]

sir, I want to thank you for this, it saved me a headache trying to get my auto mount to work!

[@helpingninja]

Glad I could help!

[@WillBelden]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Been a Windows guy my entire 30-something years behind a keyboard. Linux is HARD.

[@helpingninja]

You’re welcome! It will become easier in time as you learn more :)

[@andrina118]

It will get easier - there is so much help out there

[@jeffreyvanderhorst4079]

Thanks for the vid, I was struggling with mounting a share on Debian, this worked for me!

[@helpingninja]

Glad to help! 🙂

[@ThatEntityGirl]

Thank you. I appreciate that you actually explain what each part of these lines actually do.

[@theFakeSleepyJoe]

Amazing! This is exactly what I was trying to figure out. Thanks you!

[@CrrackTheSkye]

Worked for me, thanks a bunch!

[@helpingninja]

You're welcome!

[@LucasKRNL]

Very clear and straight to the point. Great tutorial, thanks friend!

[@opnsudo]

This video was a huge help! Thank you so much!

[@helpingninja]

you're welcome!

[@MikeNewman-ss3kq]

It worked 🙂 THANK YOU!!!!!

[@anonieme_beer9200]

I constantly am getting a permission denied error when trying to access the mounted share since it is automatically connected to the root user. Any idea how to solve this?

[@Vlado709]

Thanks for the guide. I hope there will be much easier and automated way to mount permanently network shares in the future.

[@helpingninja]

you're welcome. without using a gui i seriously doubt that :))

[@monoham1]

`sudo mount -a` mount.nfs: requested NFS verison or trans... not supported i came here to resolve this error when doing sudo mount /path /localpath but all you gave me was a new way to get the same error!

[@clivewi9103]

The mount is owned by Root, and although you can read from the mount you can't write to the mount unless you make your sell root at which point it works fine.

[@helpingninja]

Well yes and no. NFS volumes are always root owned. But both samba shares and nfs ownership can be changed with chown or chmod.

[@clivewiddus3953]

@@helpingninja With reference to Fedora 39, the permissions on the mounted directories don't make any difference and change once the drives are mounted; to help everybody else with this problem I added the following line to /etc/fstab file: "//IP address of Samba Server/my-share /media/backup cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm,credentials=/root/.credentials, 0 0" The uid and gid are your user account on your local machine not on the server which can be looked up using the "ld" command. No additional spaces other wise you get a error. The .credentials has the account details to use to log onto the samba server.

[@notreallyme425]

Really could use a right click “Mount on startup” option. I really want to like and promote Linux, but as long as they gatekeep with stuff like this it will never happen

[@tutacat]

Depends on your software what features it handles. The file manager doesn't have to do literally everything. Old ways can be simple and consistent, and will continue to be supported for many years.

[@tutacat]

if you want to do that you can use other software. For example file manager does file reading, defined mounts, and usually udisks for existing partitions. you can also mount network shares through most file managers, but again that wouldn't necessarily be permanent depending on the file manager and what settings it has.

[@bayboy8131]

You are a lifesaver!!!

[@Mau105]

having problems with the second sudo command, could it be a the drive I am trying to mount is not the correct format?? It works on Windows machine

[@helpingninja]

Could be, but I doubt it. Check if you have ntfs-3g package installed. The error while mounting should give you some pointers.

[@tetuaoro]

Man, wow thx a lot 👊🏼

[@nam-pb9sv]

Hi, I did everything in the video but it gives me this output: mount error: Server abruptly closed the connection. This can happen if the server does not support the SMB version you are trying to use. The default SMB version recently changed from SMB1 to SMB2.1 and above. Try mounting with vers=1.0. mount error(112): Host is down Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

[@mrxmry3264]

hello. i tried this method, but i didn't get far. when i said SUDO MOUNT -A, i got an error saying that /mnt/data doesn't exist. so i tried /media/data, with the same result. so i tried to create such a folder, only to be told that permission was denied. so i have some questions: - where should i mount the NAS folder? since the NAS is not an internal HD in my PC, i'm guessing /media would be a good place. - how do i set the permissions for a folder so that i can create other folders inside? - what do i need to do on the NAS to make sure i can access it using NFS?

[@helpingninja]

Hi there. For the first question you already provided the answer - if the forldere doesn't exist you need to create one. It does'nt really matter if it's in the /mnt or /media folder. Those are both good places, but actually you can mount it anywhere. I personally prefer to mount removable devices to /media. Everything else (like network shares) to /mnt. Question about the permission isn't that simple. I recommend to read/watch a tutorial on linux permissions. On the NAS you nead to enable NFS protocol and specify from which networks it will be available (like 10.0.0.0/24 for example).

[@Sebbz]

The username and password in smbcredentials, is it the password and user of the NAS user or the Linux user on the client side?

[@helpingninja]

it's the samba credentials for samba user on the NAS.

[@HudoHudHudec]

it takes 2 minutes on Windows to solve this problem... on rocky linux it took me ages and I ctill can't figure it out.... your should add troubleshooting at the end. I have problems with credential file it seems... and I cannot find a way around it

[@liverleef]

Thanks for your help!

[@AndehX]

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils pretty important first step conveniently missed from the video...

[@helpingninja]

Mistakes were made, thanks.

[@ChaimKutoff]

Any idea why I might be getting an error "mount.cifs: permission denied"?

[@helpingninja]

Yea, I'll bet that your forgot to use sudo or root permissions.

[@ChaimKutoff]

@@helpingninja Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate you helping me out. Just started with Linux about a week ago. You mean I need to log into the console as root? I start with "sudo -i"? I didn't see that command in your video. I saw you started with "pwd", why?

[@helpingninja]

@@ChaimKutoff sorry for the late reply. "pwd" just prints your working directory - the place where you're currently standing. i doesn't do anything else. By starting with sudo I meant "sudo mount ..." Maybe look for some linux basics tutorials to get the grasp of the basics. after that everything else will make much more sense for sure.

[@ChaimKutoff]

@@helpingninja thanks! That's what I did I did. Got it working!

[@helpingninja]

@@ChaimKutoff glad to hear that. :)

[@Lann91]

I wonder why linux is still unpopular. Oh yes, maybe the fact that things like perma mounting a network drive needs a 5 minute long tutorial on youtube.

[@dankkster]

linux is plenty popular. but I emplore you to stay with whatever OS you are with. linux doesnt want you.

[@Lann91]

@@dankkster Well thats glad to hear. This will be the year of the linux, for sure this time, am i right

[@dankkster]

@@Lann91 Linux isn't the best for those with a lower intelligence quotient. 96% of the servers your message passed through to post your naive message here is linux based. Oh, and youtube and yep, your phone as well. Yeah, Linux is super unpopular until you realize it isnt. Trolling isn't for you it seems.

[@ninjs2932]

​@@dankksterSavage!!

[@seapanda-117]

Why is everyone acting this way? Lol I use Linux daily and for my home server, and the ability to permanently mount a network or attached drive 100% should be more easily accessible.

[@bobby-k-mastering]

It's not readable on your screen especially dark colours over a black background.

[@CmdSoda]

Unfortunately it didn't work. But thanks anyway.

[@helpingninja]

Sorry to hear that. What happened?

[@CmdSoda]

@@helpingninja I figured it out. I had to enable nfs4 support in my nas.

[@helpingninja]

Glad to hear you figured it out! 👍

[@jacquesredmond]

Wellllll...I am using a Pi-Nas running OMV.. connects perfectly and instantly in Windows 10... but when I am trying to connect my Linux Mint LMDE 6 Faye machine, it is saying unable to CHDIR to my Nas directory. I >KNOW< my directory, I have tried caps and lower case, no avail. :(