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It's one of these problems I'm running into every time that I set up a server :-(
I have an Ubuntu server 16.04 and would like to auto-mount a samba share.

In my /etc/fstab I have the entry: 

//10.10.2.2/share    /media/share    cifs    defaults,_netdev,noauto,nofail,username=user,passwd=pass    0    0

When I execute 

sudo mount -a

I get no error message but the share is not mounted :-(

The most interesting part however is that if I do a 

sudo mount /media/share

The share is mounted

I had various problems with samba before but this behavior is new for me. Does anybody have an idea how to address this issue?

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That's normal behaviour if you set noauto. From man mount:

noauto Can only be mounted explicitly (i.e., the -a option will not cause the filesystem to be mounted).

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  • Oh f**ck. Such a stupid mistake. Thanks for pointing me to this option (that I just copied from an old server).
    – DerNils
    Nov 10, 2017 at 12:10

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