Can't mount RetroPie in AutoFS on Ubuntu

[Maynard]

Hi,

i can access to retropie using thunar file manager on xubuntu 18.04, but i fail when i try to mount it using autofs or classic 'mount' and i think its because there is no username and password. This line works for all my samba shares

retropie     -fstype=cifs,uid=1000,username=user,password=password     ://192.168.10.21

When i omitt username and password the folder 'retropie' is created but when i try 'ls /autofs/retropie' i have the error that the folder doesn't exist. When i try it with this command

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.10.21 /mnt

i have to enter a password for 'root@192.168.10.21'. Also '-o guest' doesn't work, there is no such option for mount.

[mitu]

@Maynard said in Can't mount RetroPie in AutoFS on Ubuntu:

i have to enter a password for 'root@192.168.10.21'. Also '-o guest' doesn't work, there is no such option for mount.

Actually there is such an option (see man mount.cifs):

$ sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //retropie/roms /mnt
$ ls -l /mnt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Jun  8 03:59 3do
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Aug 31 13:38 amiga
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Apr 14  2018 amstradcpc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Sep 15 15:58 arcade
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Feb  7  2019 arcadia
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Jul  9 20:46 atari2600
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Apr 14  2018 atari5200
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Apr 14  2018 atari7800
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Apr 14  2018 atari800
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Apr 14  2018 atarilynx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Mar 23  2019 atarist
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Jul 22 18:06 c64
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Jun  9 05:26 coco
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Mar 31  2019 coleco
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Apr  1  2019 crvision
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      0 Jan 18  2019 daphne
...

[Maynard]

OK this works. But i only works when i mount the specific folder and not when i mount only //retropie. normally when there are more then one folder i want to access to i don't mount the single folder. When i go to the mount point i can choose the folder i want.

[mitu]

That's not going to work, it's how CIFS/SMB works. You can't mount a host, just a share. Sure, the file browser shows you the available shares, but even on Windows (using Map Drive) you can't do that.
Maybe there's another solution with an intermediary program that reads the shares and mounts them separately so you can see them side-by-side, but underneath mount will still only map each shared folder.