Hello! I have an Ubuntu server with a NAS mounted using cifs-utils, and I’ve created an entry in fstab for the share to be mounted at boot.
My fstab entry looks like this:
//192.168.1.21/Media-Library /mnt/Home-NAS/Media-Library cifs user=Jellyfin,password=password,iocharset=utf8 0 0
(The password is not actually “password” of course)
However, while I’m able to access the share perfectly fine, and even have a Jellyfin server reading from it, I cannot write files to the share without using sudo. I have some applications that manage metadata for music, and they’re not able to change or add files in any way.
I am however able to access the share from my Fedora machine just fine with the same credentials, since I use KDE, I just added them to the default “Windows Share Credentials” setting. I don’t have the issue where I have to use sudo to modify files, so I know it’s just an issue with the share mounted to the server and not permission issues on the NAS itself.
What am I doing wrong?
Here a post with similar question and an answer from two years ago where the OP claims that using uid= did not work : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/687764/mount-t-cifs-only-mounts-as-root-and-no-longer-honours-uid-and-gid
From that link the comment starting with this paragraph below may work :
That worked! Thank you very much!