Temporary network mount points? How to make it permanent?

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Hi,

A new Linux user here, coming from Windows.

I’m having trouble using a network share with backup software. In the program, I navigate to the network share, and it produces a folder like “/run/user/1000/kio-fuse-EIwcIs/smb/tower.local/mike/backups”. It works the first time, then I reboot and when I reconnect, that “EIwcIs” bit is now something else, so the program can’t find it.

How do I stop that changing between reboots?

Thanks,

Mike

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hi, welcome.

please, if you can provide more information about your setup

you can click on the background and type “info”, then go to the settings page that shows in the search results

copy that info to the clipboard and paste it here as block text

for easier readability
use three backticks on the line before
as well the line after the paste
to create a block text insert like this

as a first step, you can go to the system tray and open the Disks & Devices icon, and configure… you should see some thing like this where your network device is listed.

make sure the automount box is checked and every time you login it should remount the file system.

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Hello. Thanks for the reply.

Well, that’s silly, I just put together a long reply of the steps I’d gone through and added a bunch of screenshots to the post to help. I click “Reply”, and then get told that new users here can’t add more than one image to a post! What’s the point of telling me that after I’ve done it???

I went back to some experimentation and googling, and stumbled across a redit post. One issue I was working around was that the Backup program couldn’t mount the network share itself, and the post suggested installing gvfs-smb and starting the service for it. That seems to have worked. If it’s connected to a share correctly itself, bypassing anything the local file system has to say about it, then it should be fine on reboots. I’ll let it do a backup then test that out, but I’m confident it’ll behave now.

Thanks for your time!

Mike

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hehe… welcome to the new user experience ™.

it gets better after you post a few times.

glad you figured it out.