[ubuntu-studio-users] Problem with 18.04 and CIFS share mount

[Mike Squires]

The following entry in my /etc/fstab file on an Ubuntu Studio client 
running 16.04 mounts the CIFS share on the FreeBSD 10 server running 
Samba 3 without problems:

//opteron16/share /media/opteron16/share cifs 
credentials=/home/mikes/.smbcredentials,uid=7961,gid=4001 0 0

It doesn't work with 18.04.  I was able to get it to work by using NTLM 
but that workaround has also stopped working, apparently with the latest 
security fixes.

Rather than try to solve it I've worked around it; I've gone through and 
changed the UID and GID of my user ID on the Ubuntu Studio boxes to what 
it is on the FreeBSD boxes and now just do an NFS mount, which works fine.

The message I get in 18.04 is that the mount can only be performed by root.

I'm not the only one with this problem, saw a number of references 
online to the problem in 18.xx Ubuntu versions.

Mike Squires

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