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OK, you may want to check
dmesg
orjournalctl
if there are further errors from the kernel - there is also a-v
argument formount
, egmount -t cifs -v //SERVER/$share /mnt --verbose -o...
that might help.Don't know if you've found this already (and apologies if you have!) but this suggests some not obvious solutions https://superuser.com/questions/430163/cifs-share-mount-errors
Also (brain dumping) if you've successfully mounted it via the file browser, do so again and then check
mount
to see what arguments/options the CIFS mount is using - it might yield some important differences.Thanks! That last option is something I thought of too, but I didn't know what to do to get that information. I tried properties in the file explorer, but that didn't work. Do I just type
mount
into the terminal to get a list of mounts? I'll definitely try all of this after work. For now I'm exhausted from staying up until 1:30 am trying to get this figured out.Sorry, I was thinking file browser mounts would appear in
mount
, but they don't.You should be able to list file browser mounts in a terminal using
gio mount -li
after mounting via the file browser, and it will list the SMB mount it's using, iesmb://SERVER/$share/
This annoyingly doesn't give us the username or domain for the SMB share, and to get that if the server and share looks OK we have to run
gvfs
(what the file browser for PopOS uses in the background) in debug mode and re-mount the SMB share; in a terminal runpkill gvfs; pkill nautilus; LANG=C GVFS_DEBUG=1 $(find /usr/lib* -name gvfsd 2>/dev/null) --replace 2>&1
; this will unmount anything in the file browser but will show what username and domain the file browser is using to access the SMB share, for example after clicking on a share in the file browser, among other logs, I get;This should give the username and domain that connects and can be used in the credential file.
Once this is done, you can exit the terminal with
gvfs
running and you should be able to close and re-open the file browser and the mounts should just re-appear normally.Hopefully this will give enough information as to why the file browser mount works and the
mount
command doesn't.This is amazing! Thank you very much. I'll try this out tonight and hopefully get somewhere with it. I'll let you know either way. Thanks again!