I have been using Linux distribution called Aurora Linux ¹ well over year as my main distro. I did pretty much cold turkey switch from Windows 10, as the Window s boot drive’s bootloader just failed for some reason.

I also have my own server running, and I like to use SMB as I can’t then use Unraid’s Recycle Bin plugin functionalities in case of accidentally deleted files.

Anyway here are two methods to mount SMB shares on immutable distro’s ²

# fstab

1. Normal mount sudo mount -t cifs -o username=<user>,password=<password>,vers=2.0 //localhost/Media /mnt/smb/Media
2. Add to fstab

//localhost/Media /mnt/smb/Media cifs auto,x-gvfs-name=Media,username=<user>password=<password>,uid=1000,gid=100,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,vers=2.0 0 0

# Rclone

This is my preferred way, as I can also use this mount Fastmail’s Webdav share ³.

1. Create rclone config as such

[Server]
type = smb
host = localhost
user = <username>
pass = <passwordbase64>

2. Create systemd mount unit, and name as var-home-user-mnt-smb.mount

Save this to `/home/user/.config/systemd/user/

Note that the mount unit’s filename has to be the same one as the target where the SMB share is mounted.

[Unit]
Description=Mount smb
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Mount]
Type=rclone
What=Server:/
Where=/var/home/user/mnt/server/
Options=config=/var/home/user/.config/rclone/rclone.conf,vfs-cache-mode=full
TimeoutSec=120

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

3. Then do some systemctl commands

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable var-home-user-mnt-smb.mount
sudo systemctl start var-home-user-mnt-smb.mount