[CentOS] Mounting CIFS shares on C8

Fri Apr 3 15:02:17 UTC 2020
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> Hi all,
>
> I'm tearing my hair off trying to understand the difference between C7 &
> C8
> for mounting a cifs FS with fstab
>
> I'm building a Plex media server on C8 and duplicated the fstab entries
> over from my current C7 installation
> My data (music & movies) are on CIFS shares on a Synology NAS.
> The packages cifs-utils samba-client samba-common are installed, up to
> date
> etc...
>
> These are my current fstab entries on the C7 box
>
> //192.168.1.200/mp3 /home/plex/Musique cifs
> user=plex,pass=plex,ro,auto,vers=3.0
> //192.168.1.200/videos /home/plex/Vidéos cifs
> user=plex,pass=plex,ro,auto,vers=3.0
>
>
> On my C8:
>
> [root at plexvm etc]# cat fstab
>
> #
> # /etc/fstab
> # Created by anaconda on Fri Apr  3 14:02:23 2020
> #
> # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'.
> # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more
> info.
> #
> # After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to update systemd
> # units generated from this file.
> #
> /dev/mapper/cl_plexvm-root /                       xfs     defaults
>  0 0
> UUID=f7c4e0e2-703e-4e61-8d7a-0aa34f836b02 /boot                   ext4
>  defaults        1 2
> /dev/mapper/cl_plexvm-swap swap                    swap    defaults
>  0 0
> //192.168.1.200/mp3     /home/plex/Musique      cifs
>  user=plex,pass=plex,workgroup=DERWAEL,ro,auto,vers=3.0
> //192.168.1.200/videos  /home/plex/Vidéos       cifs
>  user=plex,pass=plex,workgroup=DERWAEL,ro,auto,vers=3.0
> //192.168.1.200/series  /home/plex/Séries       cifs
>  user=plex,pass=plex,workgroup=DERWAEL,ro,auto,vers=3.0
> [root at plexvm etc]# mount -a
> mount error(2): No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
> mount error(2): No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
> mount error(2): No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
> [root at plexvm etc]#
>
>
>
> Any pointer would be MUCH appreciated!

Do the directories /home/plex/Musique, /home/plex/Vidéos and
/home/plex/Séries really exist on the C8 host?

Regards,
Simon