fstab

[ICE8]

I recently had to wipe my machine. For the sake of time I was only able to backup /home. Unfortunately, I had neither the smarts or time to back up /etc.
I had 5 fstab entries that showed up unmounted in nemo under Network in the left pane, and no longer show. If I browse to /mnt/media/j_photo (for example), I am able to see and rw contents of all 5 shares. Would prefr to have them show up in nemo again, default unmounted.
Here is an example of the mount line in /etc/fstab to one share:
//ip_address/photo /mnt/media/j_photo cifs credentials=/home/user/Documents/.me 0 0
Using Cinnamon Linux Mint 19.1. Previously was using Linux Mint 19.0.
Many thanks and Happy 2019!

[AndyMH]

I think you want noauto in the options for the fstab entry. Note, if you mount your shares in /media they will show up in the 'removable drives' icon in the panel - a quick way of getting at them. This is where I mount my NAS.

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Further thought, I put my credentials file in /etc/samba, this way when I backup up the system it's taken care of, with the file in /home timeshift will not back it up in its default config. Also changed the ownership to root and RO.

[ICE8]

Thank you AndyMH.
I did add the noauto before your reply.
Creating the mount points in my /media/user directory was the trick. Not sure why I created /mnt/media/user.
Since I don't have or want other users to log into the NAS as myself (or on my personal desktop for that matter), I'll keep the credentials file under my home directory with 0600 for user account.

[gm10]

Creating the mount points in my /media/user directory was the trick. Not sure why I created /mnt/media/user.

Likely because /mnt is the standard mount location for external file systems and every guide you followed would have pointed you there. If you want mounts in /mnt (or any other location) to show up in nemo you need to add the x-gvfs-show flag to the mount options in fstab or check the "Show in user interface" box in the Disk tool's mount options dialog (no need to edit fstab manually).

[ICE8]

Well, I thought it was solved. Unlike before, when trying to mount, I get:

Unable to mount j_photo:
mount:/media/user/j_photo: operation permitted for root only

Mount points do show in Nemo, however.

//ip_address/photo /media/user/j_photo cifs noauto,credentials=/home/user/Documents/.me 0 0

[AndyMH]

Try adding your uid and gid to fstab, this is the entry for my NAS:

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//diskstation.local/home/ /media/synology cifs credentials=/etc/samba/credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

If you want mounts in /mnt (or any other location) to show up in nemo you need to add the x-gvfs-show flag to the mount options in fstab

gm10, thanks for that, learnt something

[altair4]

Well, I thought it was solved. Unlike before, when trying to mount, I get:

Unable to mount j_photo:
mount:/media/user/j_photo: operation permitted for root only

Mount points do show in Nemo, however.

//ip_address/photo /media/user/j_photo cifs noauto,credentials=/home/user/Documents/.me 0 0

If the object is to mount this share in your file manager as required you need one more option: user :

//ip_address/photo /media/user/j_photo cifs noauto,user,credentials=/home/user/Documents/.me 0 0

** Because the mount point is under /media it will show up on the side panel of your file manager.
** noauto will make it so it doesn't mount at boot.
** user allows an ordinary user ( i.e., not root ) the ability to mount the share.

Note: user in this case is literally user not your user name.

Put it all together with a little help from udisks in the background and the link in the file manager becomes actionable: click on the link and the system will go to fstab to find out if you can mount and then determine how to mount it - all seamlessly.

[ICE8]

Many thanks to the 3 of you for the assistance.

I'm certain I had tried these things before. It turns out that mount -a wasn't enough, and I wound up performing reboots to ensure that nemo got the hint. There's certainly a better, proper way to do it, but I don't know it - more to eventually learn.

I tried all of the permutations and it turns out that both AndyMH and altair4 recommendations work, together or separately. For the sake of being thorough, I did check /etc/passwd to ensure that the id for user and group were correct - and, yes, I was the first user so they were 1000.

Notes taken, comments made, and lesson learned on backing up /etc - well, OK, also to fully test before sticking solved on a post.

[AndyMH]

Notes taken

I have a simple text file on my backup drive with a launcher on the desktop - whenever I make any changes I make a note in the file with a date/timestamp. And that includes all the stuff that didn't work