If I click the “Add to Places” on the menu, will it be considered permanently mounted? If not, what’s the proper way to mount this network share drive? Do I need to create an entry on the /etc/fstab? [mountSMB] Thank you.

Best way for that would be to utilize /etc/fstab. I was struggling with that some time ago, so please find a line that finally worked for me. In my case it cooperates well with ksmbd of OpenWrt. //192.168.150.1/myshare /mnt/myshare cifs vers=3.0,nobrl,domain=lan,username=username,passwo…

Dolphin is a file-manager. If you add a folder to “Places” in it, it will appear in Dolphin under Places on it’s left bar. Nothing else. Mounting (drives, folders, or network-shares) during the boot-process is a whole different thing. It is done in the file /etc/fstab , see: https://wiki.archlinu…

Here’s an online-guide with example to mount a samba-share on Linux with fstab: [image] How to Automatically Mount Network Shares on Linux A lot of tasks on Linux are complicated, especially when you have to do them manually. Mounting network shares is no different as you need to configu…

If you will take a look here . I have dealt with similar issues in this topic. there exists a solution there with entry in /etc/fstab

What’s rationale of mounting the network share under /mnt instead of other places under /home/USER? If I just need that particular user to access it… Your UID and GID is the same, but mine is off by 1 (UID=1000 but GID is 1001). Do you know why? In your case, did you have to change the dir. …

Ad. 1 it’s just a convention I follow to mount everything in /mnt; I’m the only one using OS, so for me it’s fine; Ad. 2 I reflected what I have on server side for user intended for SMB share; you should apply your G/UIDs; Ad. 3 Nope, I left it as it was by default with root ownership and its perm…

[image] apachecai: Your UID and GID is the same, but mine is off by 1 (UID=1000 but GID is 1001). Do you know why? Sometimes setting up autologin with Calamares does this. [image] apachecai: did you have to change the dir. permission attribute of /myshare? I tried to chmod 777 in my case…

Thank you. If I don’t specify the “vers=3.0”, which version will the system default to? What’s the latest version?

[image] apachecai: If I don’t specify the “vers=3.0”, which version will the system default to? Technically, the default depends on the kernel version of the client. If the kernel version is 4.13 or later, the default version is 3.0. If the kernel version is earlier than 4.13, the default ver…

Permanently mount network share on Plasma

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Here’s an online-guide with example to mount a samba-share on Linux with fstab: