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I have 2 workstations, 1 running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 64bit and 1 running Ubuntu Mate 16.04 32bit. Both machines have cifs-utils and samba installed and the 64bit machine connects to my NAS, no problem but the 32bit returns "mount-error(112) Host is Down yet I can connect to the NAS using "Connect to Server"... What am I missing? Both fstab files refer to a credentials file which are identical on both machines and the line //ipadress/share etc etc are the same on both machines. Please help before I pull all of my hair out. I've done a lot of searching on askubuntu and google to no avail.

AlEgan
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    Maybe the network is not yet connected when `fstab` entries are mounted. Can you add the `noauto` option and then mount it manually using `sudo mount /path/to/mountpoint` ? – pLumo Apr 15 '19 at 15:18
  • It used to work until I re-installed Ubuntu Mate. – AlEgan Apr 15 '19 at 15:46
  • You may find some help here: https://serverfault.com/questions/414074/mount-cifs-host-is-down or here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/915549/16-04-cifs-host-is-down-but-they-are-not – graham Apr 15 '19 at 16:46

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The problem that caused the error message "mount error (112): Host is down" was that I failed to state the Version in the fstab entry, something I didn't have to do in the 64 bit version. My fstab entry now reads: //192.168.?.?/sourcelocation home//alan/Documents cifs iocharset=utf8,credentialsfile=/credlocation,uid=1000,gid=1000,vers=1.0 0 2 All is now working fine

AlEgan
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