Ubuntu – GVFS Locations Not Available In ~/.gvfs

ok, i've re-read your question and have another answer.

when you mount it in /etc/fstab or with sudo mount from the command line, you need to set the uid and gid and optionally the umask too (file_mode and dir_mode) so that local users on the client can use the share. otherwise, it will default to being owned by root and W only by root. and it probably doesn't hurt to explicitly mount it as RW.

sudo mount -t cifs //myserver/myshare /media/remote-share \
  -o rw,user=henry,uid=xxx,gid=yyy

where xxx and yyy are the local (local to the client, that is) user and group that should "own" the share when it is mounted. if it's only one local user that needs access, the gid probably doesn't matter. if multiple local users need access, then the gid has to be set and every local user who needs access has to be a member of that gid.

there are other options that may need to be set, depending on your network setup (e.g. you may need to specify the domain). see the manpage for mount.cifs(8) for more details.

BTW, see the notes about credentials file if you're mounting it from /etc/fstab. fstab is world-readable so not a good place to put passwords. a credentials file can be owned by root, mode 600.

You can copy the lines started with /dev/sd** from mtab (/etc/mtab) and paste them in to a new text file and change /dev/sd** with UUID or LABEL. For example from your config:

use

UUID="3fc55e0f-a9b3-4229-9e76-ca95b4825a40" / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0

instead

/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0

The line above also works, but UUID is the new standart and if your grub configured with UUID, it might can't understand which partition is what.

if partition has Label you can use the LABEL instead UUID, for example:

LABEL="Files_Server_Int" /media/Files_Server ext4 rw 0 0

IMO copy your mtab to a new file and remove the lines started with "none" and change the /dev/sd** part with blkid output equivelants. If UUID exist, use the UUID instead of /dev/sd**. If LABEL exist use the LABEL instead of UUID.

Do not remove anything else except "none" lines. Save the file, change the file name to fstab and copy in to /etc.

Finally add lines for swap if any (if you forget this, your system will boot but you might have zero swap space or swap file will be generated at root (/) depending of OS default configuration.). e.g. in your case note that blkid prints this line:

/dev/sda5: UUID="718e611d-b8a3-4f02-a0cc-b3025d8db54d" TYPE="swap" 

so you need this line in fstab:

UUID=718e611d-b8a3-4f02-a0cc-b3025d8db54d none  swap sw   0   0

This might help to restore your fstab.