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Why is mount.cifs not working in fstab any more after upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04?

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My fstab for connecting to a local NAS was always

//192.168.111.112/RAID /home/moi/share/OMV cifs noauto,users,username=USERNAME,passwd=PASSWORD

After upgrading my system from Lubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 this did not work any more, giving the error-message:

Failed to query password: Permission denied

Password for USER@//192.168.111.112/RAID: mount error(22): Invalid argument

Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

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answered 1 Year ago edseager · Accepted Answer

What worked for me was adding vers=1.0 to the options in fstab in combination with changing the option for password from passwd to password:

//192.168.111.112/RAID /home/moi/share/OMV cifs  vers=1.0,noauto,users,username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD

This helped to find an error-log:

tail -f  /var/log/kern.log

I would appreciate any further input.

EDIT: Sept 2019

Today I realized that users is no longer a valid argument of the mount cifs command. Also, vers=1.0 should be the default, according to man mount.cifs.