Fstab - Mounting Network Drive On Boot Not Working

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Hello Everyone,

I am running Manjaro Gnome on my Dell XPS 13 laptop and have been trying to mount a shared drive on my Mac-Mini server with some issues. When I start my laptop (from a cold boot), I see the following output on bootup:

Screenshot:
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Fstab Line For Reference:

//asifs-mac-mini.local/asifs\040hd	/home/aahmad/Asifs-Mac-Mini	cifs _netdev,username=aahmad,password=xxxxx 0 0

The issue is that when I boot up, obviously the shared drive is not available. However, when I run the ā€˜sudo mountā€™ command, usually it works properly:

sudo mount -va                                                                                                                                                  ī‚² āœ” 
[sudo] password for aahmad: 
/boot/efi                : already mounted
/home                    : already mounted
/                        : ignored
mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=10.0.1.100,unc=\\asifs-mac-mini.local\asifs hd,user=aahmad,pass=********
/home/aahmad/Asifs-Mac-Mini: successfully mounted

After executing this command, you can see the mount works and I can access all my files and data on the mac mini server without issue at this point.

The Issue:
I have been told it is a possible issue (since I am on a laptop) that the wifi is not available when the mount is trying to be mounted. However, the error is not very descriptive in terms of what is going on.

Question:
Is there any additional logging / debug information / etc. I can capture so I can be sure this is not another issue behind the scenes that is preventing it from mounting on boot?

Basically, I would like to start my laptop and have the shared mac-mini drive available as outlined in the fstab config mounted to a directory in my home dir location. Any help anyone could offer to help troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance to everyone for your time and help!

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Anyone? Thanks in advance!

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For lack of specifc knowledge and experience I can only say this:
I would try to rewrite that as a systemd mount, so that it depends on the network actually being up when the mount is attempted.
Isnā€™t cifs similar to smb?
I have also read about the ā€œnofailā€ option to the mount command - so that it doesnā€™t block when the mount fails.
Just some ideas to explore ā€¦

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I have a similar issue. Here is my fstab command:

//192.168.0.185/Disk1 /mnt/MyDrive cifs _netdev,x-systemd.after=network-online.target,credentials=/etc/.creds,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlmv2i,vers=2.0 0 0

My drive is setup on my server as a samba share. When I bootup, file manager gives me permission denied error, however, if i do mount -a command without changing anything, it works. I am using kde version. What am i missing?

Thanks everyone for your help.

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@BeatlesFan it maybe because you didnā€™t execute this command:
sudo systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online

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Iā€™m getting the exact same issue as you guys, using KDE also. Have not yet tried bikehunters suggestion, but will give it a go.