How to mount a cifs drive in fstab. mount error(22)

[dallinatorX]

So, I have been trying to mount a drive from my NAS to install steam games on.
I have tried a bunch of things from other posts but it always comes back to error 22.
This is the line I currently have in the fstab. The "*" ate there to respent my password.

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//192.168.0.115/test  /media/Network_Drive/   cifs  uid=0,guid=0,rw,username=dallinatorx,password=******   0   0

All I get back is

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mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Thanks.

[altair4]

It would make life so much easier if the damn error message would tell the user what argument it found invalid.

My guess is it's guid=0 since there is no such thing as guid. Change it to gid=0 .

Not sure why you would want to mount it with root as owner and group but maybe you have your reasons.

[dallinatorX]

Sorry, I am still fairly new to this. I would like to mount it just for my user not for root. So if I need to change it to do that just tell me what to do. Also, I am at school I will test when I get home.

[altair4]

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//192.168.0.115/test  /media/Network_Drive/   cifs  uid=altair,rw,username=dallinatorx,password=******   0   0

Change "altair" to your own linux user name and it will mount with you as owner.

Note: NAS devices are a real pain because some are state of the art and some belong with Win98 so you may need some other options:

If your NAS is running an antique version of Samba you may need to add: sec=ntlm
And depending on how it's set up you may even need something like: nounix

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//192.168.0.115/test  /media/Network_Drive/   cifs  uid=altair,rw,username=dallinatorx,password=******,sec=ntlm,nounix   0   0

It's a trial end error process to get the right set of options.

[dallinatorX]

Good News. It is mounting like it should.
So I have been trying to use this to store my steam games. But I still get the error that I need execute permissions. Would you have any clue why? I am using FreeNAS. So would I need to change something in there or on my computer? If the former I will go try on the FreeNAS forums.
fstab

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//192.168.0.115/test  /media/Network_Drive   cifs  rw,username=dallinatorx,password=********,exec,users,uid=dallinatorx   0   0

I also have changed me to the owner with chown and change permissions with chmod to 700.
Thanks

[altair4]

What I would do first is remove the exec and users options. You don't need either and besides the "users" option turns off the "exec" option.

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//192.168.0.115/test  /media/Network_Drive   cifs  rw,username=dallinatorx,password=********,uid=dallinatorx   0   0

[altair4]

Did a quick search and found something interesting on the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St ... leshooting

Steam client issues
Cannot add library folder because of missing execute permissions

If you add another Steam library folder on another drive, you might get the error message:

New Steam library folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions

Make sure you are mounting the filesystem with the correct flags in your /etc/fstab, usually by adding exec to the list of mount parameter. The parameter must occur after any user or users parameter since these can imply noexec.

This error might also occur if your library folder does not contain a steamapps directory. Previous versions used SteamApps instead, so ensure the name is fully lowercase.

It's talking about another internal partition not a samba share but you might want to take more control of the mount with something like this:

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//192.168.0.115/test  /media/Network_Drive/   cifs  uid=dallinatorx,username=dallinatorx,password=******,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,nounix   0   0

I can't comment on this part of the quote but maybe it means something to you:

This error might also occur if your library folder does not contain a steamapps directory. Previous versions used SteamApps instead, so ensure the name is fully lowercase.