Cannot mount smb/cifs from fstab - Raspberry Pi Forums

okay, have been trying few days , cannot seem work.

have freenas box serving out files on cifs/smb , want automatically mount shares when pi boots.

able mount share using following command via ssh:

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sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.119/0.5tb\ sg\ hdd\ 1 /var/0.5tbsghdd1 -o user=matthew

entering password when prompted.

so...
after looking @ several hundred recommendations others...
reading many, many pages of fstab syntax tutorials...
, trying many, many, many... lot... of different fstab configurations...

best guess fstab line should be:

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//192.168.2.119/0.5tb\ sg\ hdd\ 1  /var/0.5tbsghdd1  cifs  user=matthew,pass=pass,uid=1001,_netdev  0  0

saving fstab.

run command

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sudo mount -a [mntent]: line 4 in /etc/fstab bad 

okay, figure there might sort of issue authenticating, or users, or that...
rather fiddling credentials , trying chown everything, created user account on nas, matches default raspbian user credentials.

better test out first make sure works manually...

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sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.119/0.5tb\ sg\ hdd\ 1  /var/0.5tbsghdd1 -o user=pi password: raspberry

far good.

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ df -a filesystem                     1k-blocks      used available use% mounted on rootfs                           1828696   1465252    270568  85% / /dev/root                        1828696   1465252    270568  85% / devtmpfs                           94488         0     94488   0% /dev tmpfs                              18912       200     18712   2% /run tmpfs                               5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock proc                                   0         0         0    - /proc sysfs                                  0         0         0    - /sys tmpfs                              37820         0     37820   0% /run/shm devpts                                 0         0         0    - /dev/pts /dev/mmcblk0p1                     57288     16896     40392  30% /boot //192.168.2.119/0.5tb sg hdd 1 480708340 212949452 229302224  49% /var/0.5tbsghdd1 pi@raspberrypi ~ $

alright! new credentials work fine!

having done that, tried new fstab line using new credentials...

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//192.168.2.119/0.5tb\ sg\ hdd\ 1  /var/0.5tbsghdd1  cifs  user=pi,pass=raspberry,uid=1006,_netdev  0  0

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sudo mount -a [mntent]: line 4 in /etc/fstab bad 

think myself why dont try mount share manually name...

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sudo mount /var/0.5tbsghdd1 mount: can't find /var/0.5tbsghdd1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

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proc                                     /proc                   proc    defaults                        0       0 /dev/mmcblk0p1                          /boot                   vfat    defaults                        0       2 /dev/mmcblk0p2                          /                         ext4    defaults,noatime        0       1 //192.168.2.119/0.5tb\ sg\ hdd\ 1  /var/0.5tbsghdd1  cifs  user=pi,pass=raspberry,uid=1006,_netdev  0  0 

mount point in fstab... plain day....
mount point absolutely exists within /var/...
dedicated ip nas...
share mounts 100% correctly when done manually using either set of credentials...

lost...

please me...
ps. if have broken forum rules apologize in advance. point out error , i'll move post.
pss. have read hundreds of search results regarding samba, cifs, fstab, mtab, mount, mount.cifs, , moun -t on forum alone... google provided me many thousands of others... have done lots of homework , asking help. thankyou.
psss. if turns out stupidly easy fix eat raspberry pi

have tried using share name without spaces in not need escaping? not sure if escaping works in fstab (i have never used it).

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