Hoping someone can help.
I have previously been able to mount a local network drive to my server (was running Ubuntu 16.04.7, now running 18.04.6). However, recently when I try it gives the following error:
mount error(112): Host is down
I use the command below to mount:
mount /mnt/directoryname
My fstab looks like:
//network/share/ /mnt/directoryname cifs uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm,noauto,user 0 0
Having read through previous posts with similar issues, I have attempted to force the use of specific SMB protocols (1, 2, 2.1 and 3), using the following fstab (in this example for version 1):
//network/share/ /mnt/directoryname cifs uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm,noauto,user,vers=1.0 0 0
No matter which version I specify I continue to get the same error.
If I comment out the line in the fstab and attempt to mount via the command-line I continue to receive the same error. Below is the mount options I use:
sudo mount -t cifs //network/share/ /mnt/directoryname -o username=myusername,vers=1.0
I have also seen the addition of "defaults" to the fstab options:
//network/share/ /mnt/directoryname cifs uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm,noauto,defaults,user 0 0
but that just produces an invalid argument error message (so perhaps I added it incorrectly).
I'm not sure what to do now. I can connect to the network drive via my PC and the webpage. I can ping the network drive from the server. Therefore, I know it is up and running.
I have tried using smbclient as well:
smbclient //network/share/ --user=MYUSERNAME
That gives the following error:
protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED
Which possibly has more to do with the fact I don't really know how to use the smbclient command but may be indicative of an associated issue.
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Thank you for reading.
ETA: correct mount command when commenting out the fstab line
