Mount remote smb share on hassio

[boheme61]

dont use username or password with “space” or other special characters, unless you are sure that all device, OS, Software that should communicate with eachother supports this,

[boheme61]

@dmnmes163

Shouldn’t one of them return an error for a bad password?

i suppose so, but it’s the mount that seems wrong , i don’t know anything about synology

But you get a " Connection refused", so either you don’t have right user/passwd, or not enabled samba on your nas, or wrong path
… thats why i asked about the “disk” … user “guest” ?, i would never have used this, but same user as either HA or samba, and in regards to the path, i obviously can’t say anything as i dont know your system … but i try to be “generic”, so if a mount a disk in linux, i use same file-system/cluster size on the disk,i even have an extra disk for files, configs/backups etc, same file system … why complicate things or “create” additional" fault points ?, various techs is complicated enough … and don’t forget to make sure you use supported nfs version

PS: and don’t for get to change this … Don’t use “special characters” you don’t even know if supported

@boheme61

“escape special characters” ? … don’t use them if it’s not supported

[dmnmes163 (DM)]

So I tried to take the Synology out of the picture and just share a folder on my win10 laptop, changed security to give “Everyone” access, and I’m still getting permission denied errors, when trying both nfs and cifs. I did temporarily turn off Windows firewall so I don’t think it’s a port issue, unless my router is doing something weird. I think I’m going to walk away from this one and maybe come back fresh another day. Thanks for your help @boheme61

[boheme61]

Which integration/ADD-Onn are you using ? and how does your settings look like there ?

[boheme61]

@dmnmes163

Here is what I have listed in my configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
  media_dirs:
    media: /media
    synologynas: /media/syno

Are you sure you have followed the “Installation” guide for your Samba ? as i don’t use configuration.yaml but th ADD-Onn to configure the Samba, above looks pretty “simple” as there is no “allow_hosts:” etc. , and as i mention before " Don’t use username/password with space or other “special” characters

[carsten_h (Carsten Friehe)]

@boheme61

as i don’t use configuration.yaml but th ADD-Onn to configure the Samba

I think you are in the wrong thread.
This thread is about mounting an external samba share from a samba server not about using Home Assistant as a samba server!

[boheme61]

ok, yes it seems so when going through all posts from scratch, didn’t even know that HA was able to “talk” samba, without an Add-On or Integration … but maybe that’s not needed, when trying to authenticate to the external samba-server

[boheme61]

So at-least i can try to give a “Final” hint, if it’s helpful …

@insajd

yes,

1. go to http://homeassistant.local:8123/hassio/store (Add-on Store)
2. Install Portainer (after install, disable Protection mode checkbox)
3. Portainer → Settings → Hidden containers. Delete the listed hidden labels
4. Open Containers section, open homeassistant container, click Console
5. Connect as root (that’s the default).
6. Check that folder was created

cd /mnt
ls -la
#here configrm that media2 is here

7. Execute

mount -t cifs -o username=anonymous,domain=WORKGROUP //192.168.1.121/Movies /mnt/media2

8. If no errors, go into (cd /mnt/media2) folder and check that the files are there (ls -la)

• Probably issue would be with username/domain combo. anonymous/WORKGROUP is what I use
• It might be that SMB is configured to allow only 192.168.1.* IP addresses, this docker container has internal IP that is looking something like 172.30.32.2 - that’s also possible culprit

@tachikoma1373

Getting somewhere but its now 1:30am and I have work tomorrow Will update later today - thank you so much.

EDIT:

so I got it working with the following config.

homeassistant:
  media_dirs:
    music: /mnt/media2

shell_command:
  mount_music_folder: mkdir -p /mnt/media2;mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0,noserverino,username=<username>,domain=WORKGROUP //192.168.1.121/music /mnt/media2

You were right about the spacing - my bad. My WDis old, a version 1 hardware/firmware and the key point seems to be specifying the “vers=1.0,noserverino,”. Using the same principles I was able to mount other shares as well.

Thanks again for the assistance and the education.

From: below, thou seems like various solution for Supervised vs HassOS

Point media_dirs: at NAS share?

Thanks a lot. I’m having some issues getting this working. I’m running on a proxmox box and here’s the system info: |arch|x86_64| |---|---| |chassis|vm| |dev|false| |docker|true| |docker_version|19.03.11| |hassio|true| |host_os|HassOS 4.13| |installation_type|Home Assistant OS| |os_name|Linux| |os_version|5.4.63| |python_version|3.8.5| |supervisor|245| |timezone|Europe/London| |version|0.115.2| |virtualenv|false| So there is already a “media” directory in place as part of the install. I’m tr…

[boheme61]

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eruisi

Op · 4 mo. ago

I tried to config NFS in QNAP NFS and mount from regular linux host, but got connection refused:

mount -t nfs 192.168.1.200:/Download /mnt/download
mount: mounting 192.168.1.200:/Download on /mnt/download failed: Connection refused

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DopeBoogie

· 4 mo. ago

Impossible? Not exactly.

Difficult/next-to-impossible? Yeah pretty much.

You have the right general idea, though I believe only NFS is possible and it’s extremely picky about versions/configuration.

You will also need to run these commands from outside of the home assistant container though, which means that it can’t be done through the HA terminal or ssh add-on. You’ll need to use the debug-mode ssh to access the host system in order to run the mount commands.

This involves using a USB flash drive to import an ssh key (password is not an option, you’ll have to use keys) and once successful you can ssh into :2222 to access the host system.

[jacktux]

OK, so managed to get into Debug (on 22222) but I dont have the cifs.utils installed. What package manager is being used, or how can I install the cifs and nfs utils for mount?

[ukro]

i use fstab but after update the fstab is rewriten

[mwaterbu]

Same here. I get this error:
... bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program.

[SgtBatten]

I am trying to access a share on my unraid server from within home assistant on another server. Did you get this working?

[sk8er000]

Hi,
I’m trying to mount a network folder on HA but I need to set user and password to open it, is it possilble to implement user authentication on this automation?

[mrvnklm (Marvin)]

For everyone desperately trying to mount their network shares to Plex, here is my solution:

GitHub - mrvnklm/plex-docker-smb-mount: simple solution to mount smb network...

[ovizii]

This worked for me for a couple of years but has now stopped working. Could it be caused by one of the latest HA updates? Is this solution still working for anyone?

If I copy and paste the mount line from secrets.yaml it immediately mounts the share.

[daneboom]

mind if I ask what happened to the HA desktop app for Windows?

[nesafab (Nestor A)]

Por el Amor de Dios, que esta pasando con los Montajes en Home Assistant?
Tengo una RPi4 con un disco USB directo (donde esta HA) y un segundo con alimentacion que quiero montar y no puedo xq me sale esto:
mount: permission denied (are you root)
Claro, que soy Root!
Pregunto, alguien pudo montar una unidad USB, sin necesidad de crear scripts y solo por comandos?

[MarcoThree]

For who is searching for remote SMB connections and ends up on this thread, here is the easiest solution since the 2023-06 HA release:

2023.6: Network storage, favorite light colors, new integrations dashboard

[lassieee (Casper)]

Nice, exactly what I was looking for to mount my synology shares for use with the sonarr/radarr/sabnzbd addons.