[Solved] SMB Share working for Mint 18 but not Mint 19.

[TomForge]

SOLUTION AT END

I updated one of my computers from LM18 to LM19. I copied the #Network Shares section of my old LM18 /etc/fstab file to my LM19 /etc/fstab. Now I get mount error 22.

I know things are working on the server (192.168.1.99) end because my 2 remaining LM18 machines are connecting just fine and the locations are mounting automatically.

I am just having trouble with the new LM19 install.

Determined the user id (uid) and group id (gid) of the account.

> id tom

> sudo mkdir /forge

> sudo cp -a fstab fstab-backup

The following line added to the end of the fstab:

> # Network Shares

> //192.168.1.99/forge /forge cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/tom/.credentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

Add the following lines to /home/tom/.credentials

> username=tom
> password=******

Finally ran:

> sudo chmod 600 /home/[user|tom]/.credentials

> sudo mount -a

I read a stack overflow thread that may be helpful but I don't understand what actually to do:

It read:

"maybe this helps with this, mount error(22): Invalid argument... possible error is the argument/s (mode) on mount command. check your logs on the errors encountered.

> tail -f /var/log/kern.log

then remove the invalid argument"

So this is the info I get when I run the tail command:

Aug 23 10:15:27 MJOLNIR kernel: [ 1831.476864] No dialect specified on mount. Default has changed to a more secure dialect, SMB2.1 or later (e.g. SMB3), from CIFS (SMB1). To use the less secure SMB1 dialect to access old servers which do not support SMB3 (or SMB2.1) specify vers=1.0 on mount.
Aug 23 10:15:27 MJOLNIR kernel: [ 1831.492575] CIFS VFS: Unable to select appropriate authentication method!
Aug 23 10:15:27 MJOLNIR kernel: [ 1831.492580] CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -22
Aug 23 10:15:27 MJOLNIR kernel: [ 1831.492605] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

SOLUTION:

So change the entry in the /etc/fstab file to read:

> //192.168.1.99/forge /forge cifs uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/tom/.credentials,iocharset=utf8,vers=1.0,sec=ntlm 0 0

The argument that needed to be ADDED not REMOVED is underlined.

[deepakdeshp]

Thanks for sharing the solution.