Fstab problem for Synology SMB mount (cifs)

[SauceCNY]

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Helping out a friend with his server, I setup the fstab to mount the remote share, but it isn’t visible to PMS unless I su nautilus and click the share, after that everything can use it. I’m guessing I missed something, as it works fine on my nearly duplicate setup.

fstab line:
//xx.xx.xx.xx/Plex /media/PlexMedia/ cifs auto,defaults,nofail,credentials=/etc/plex.cred,uid=plex 0 0

scratching my head on this one
CentOS 8, up to date, no customization. I copied the setup from my Fedora server that works great

[ChuckPa]

Does that Synology system have a user account matching the creds and does that account have appropriate share access?

Also, get it out of /media. Nautilus owns /media .

Please give a read here.

How to mount media from your NAS shares on Linux using CIFS / SMB

Mounting CIFS network shares for Plex use on Linux . The basic checklist A. Prepare the NAS B. Install , if required, cifs-utils (or appropriate client) on the Plex server system. C. Create the CIFS/SMB credentials file for use in /etc/fstab D. Create a ‘mount point’ directory structure on your Linux machine which will be where all your media shares are grafted and made available for Plex use. E. Create an entry in /etc/fstab for each share you wish to mount. F. Mount and debug as …

[SauceCNY]

It was likely Nautilus. I re-did him up with Fedora already. I’m going to make a test machine with CentOS and try with a new alternative to /media. Doesn’t hurt to learn and find out why something went wrong to begin with. Thanks, you are always a great help!