Problem mounting network drive

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Hello,

New PC, clean Manjaro KDE install. Trying to mount a network drive with the following fstab entry:

//wdmycloud/Public /mnt/nas cifs username=anonimous,password=,iocharset=utf8,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,rw 0 0

After booting, when I try to access /mnt/nas from Dolphin, it doesn’t work and the following error is displayed:

An error occured while accessing 'mnt/nas', the system responded: mount.cifs: permission denied

However, if I do ‘sudo mount -a’ then the ntwork drive is mounted and works OK. The very same fstab entry worked OK on my old pc. What can be the problem?

TIA

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Are you using a WIFI network on your PC?

It is possible that the network is not available at the time that mount is attempted, but is by the time you type sudo mount -a

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No, this is a wired connection.

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are you sure the username is correct?

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New info: during boot, right before login screen appear, the following text is displayed:

[FAILED] Failed to mount /mnt/nas
[DEPENDENT] Dependency failed for remote file system.

Help will be appreciated. TIA.

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Yes. Also tried NAS admin user/pass, same response.

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Well, I found a stupid solution by creating a cron job that executes mount -a after boot. It works, but will nice to have a proper solution, if anyone knows.

Thanks to all that helped.

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Once again, are you sure it’s correct? Because, that spelling is wrong.

Else, see

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Hi Mirdarthos,

True, the spelling was wrong. However, fixing it or using the real user/password for the NAS device yields same result.

I will look at the other stuff and see if it works.

Thanks.

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