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My university allows me to connect to my school folder using mount and this is what they suggest I should add to my fstab file:

//servername/uni-user /home/myusername/sharedfolder smbfs noauto,username=uni-user,user,rw 0 0

And because smbfs is not available anymore at Ubuntu 14.04, I've installed cifs-utils and changed the fstab line to be as following:

//servername/uni-user /home/myusername/sharedfolder cifs noauto,username=uni-user,user,rw 0 0

Now when I write mount folder, it says timeout error. My question is, is there anything else I should change in the fstab line other than the name of the mounting utility? Are the parameters at the end of the line still relevant between smbfs and cifs?

I've tried mounting using the command:

/home/myusername/sharedfolder
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i use this for my part, in fstab:

//192.168.1.2/Series /home/user/Series cifs _netdev,credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials     0     0

with this in smbcredentials

username=admin
password=passeadmin
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