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I'm trying to mount a folder on my Pi in /mnt/camshare to my network share, as shown below. The network share exists & I can browse to it on a spare Ubuntu machine. FYI the Motion folder itself has 777 permissions, and samba has been installed on my Pi.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo mount.cifs /mnt/camshare //server/raid-array/Motion
Couldn't chdir to //server/raid-array/Motion: No such file or directory

I can also physically browse to the folder smb://server/raid-array/Motion from the Raspberry Pi. But I still get the error above.

The end goal is to get fstab to mount it upon startup. I have currently added the lines in my fstab file:

//server/raid-array/Motion /mnt/camshare cifs
username=server,password=secret,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

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  • BTW, this is not really an rPi specific question, more Linux&Unix.
    – Phil B.
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 20:23

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The correct syntax for mount is:

mount -t type <device> <dir>

You have your device and directory reversed.

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  • Phil, thank you very very much! I have another thing on top of this. I will update my original post for you to see
    – john smith
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 20:11
  • For the second question, take a look at this Ubuntu troubleshooter and then let us know if you still have issues. Also, make sure you put your username/password in an external file, not in fstab.
    – Phil B.
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 20:22
  • I tried it but still have the issue. I even tried the format: //server/raid-array/Motion /mnt/camshare cifs username=secret,password=secret,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0 as well as the guest version
    – john smith
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 20:45
  • Figured it out. I put the IP instead and it worked. I'm running into another issue now with read/write. I'll make another post about it. Thanks for the tips!
    – john smith
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 20:56

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