I'm new to Linux in general so please bare with me here; I have been reading and attempting solutions for most of the afternoon also until I've finally decided to ask for help, so I hope you can assist. The issue is most likely simple, but I'm having a real issue getting my WD NAS to mount with a symbolic link, mainly for Plex to discover and add as a library.
I have tried both smb and cif /etc/fstab edits:
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//server/public/Movies /user/Movies smbfs username=linuxmint,password=password 0 0
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//server/public/Movies /user/Movies cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=users,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0
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//server/public/Movies /user/Movies cifs uid=1000,gid=users,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755 0 0
The result is an error reading "Mount: uknown filesystem type 'smbfs'", even with cifs. After this I tried installing the cifs package again through the terminal with the '# apt-get install cifs-utils' command, same issue, and I also tried getting Samba with' # apt-get install smbfs' - which displays an error saying the package is no longer available.
Now for some reason mounting and sharing a folder between LM and a Windows 10 Tablet works fine with editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf? Yet the NAS just won't mount.
I've got to be overlooking something simple here. Any helpful advice?
Thanks.