I am a little confused on the proper fstab entry for a samba share in Ubuntu 12.04

• I can get the drive to mount manually by using:

  sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.2/raid_drive /mnt/homeserver -o username=jon,password=password

• So I tried putting this in fstab:

  //192.168.2.2/raid_drive /mnt/homeserver cifs username=jon,password=password,iocharset=utf8,mode=0777,dir_mode=07‌​77 0 0

• Which gives me this error in syslog:

  kernel: [ 2217.925354] CIFS: Unknown mount option mode
  kernel: [ 2217.936345] CIFS VFS: default security mechanism requested. The default security mechanism will be upgraded from ntlm to ntlmv2 in kernel release 3.3

• This guide says to use smbfs although I believe smbfs is deprecated?

What is a common fstab configuration for a samba share in Ubuntu 12.04?

EDIT:

Using the accepted answer below I was initially getting this error message (from dmesg):

[ 45.520883] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
[ 45.520990] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115

although it turns out this was due to network connectivity issues, and not related to improper fstab entry.

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2 Answers

I've been through exactly this same issue this morning with 12.04 and here's how I got it working:

Install cifs-utils (even if you already have Samba and related packages installed):

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Edit /etc/fstab and add your entry:

//server/share /pathto/mountpoint cifs credentials=/home/username/.smbcredentials,uid=shareuser,gid=sharegroup 0 0

Create the .smbcredentials file in your home directory:

username=shareuser
password=sharepassword
domain=domain_or_workgroupname

Make sure you secure your ~/.smbcredentials file:

chmod 0600 ~/.smbcredentials

Finally, test the mount with:

sudo mount -a

...and you should be good to go!

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Your initial problem is in the option mode, as syslog says in the first line. What you probably meant was file_mode, see man mount.cifs for more information.

The credential approach mentioned by Eliah is indeed better than using username and password, but I don't think it interferes with the other options like file_mode or dir_mode.

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