Anyone else had problems with a cifs share and steam libraries?

Networking
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Hi, I am trying to have my steam library on my NAS server by doing a cifs share. I am running Manjaro. I have been having trouble with permissions, specifically trying to get execute permissions as I cannot add the steam library without execute permissions. My /etc/fstab file has this:

//192.168.1.115/storage /mnt/NAS cifs uid=user,gid=user,exec,defaults 0 0

I have tried restarting to let fstab load however this doesnt have an effect. I have been struggling to work this out, any help is appreciated.

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just spitballing here, but can you try it with french symlinking explicitly enabled?
steam requires symlinking functionality that isnt enabled by default on CIFS.

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Following a guide (correct me if I did this wrong) I added this to the end;

soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,mfsymlinks

No effect, I still cannot add a steam library (No execute permission)

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Ok, I have done more testing. I am able to execute .py files on the NAS without problems, I am not sure if this is useful or not.

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I don’t remember when I added it but I have this in my Samba smb.conf:

acl allow execute always = yes
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Do you mean;?

/etc/samba/smb.conf

I tried accessing the file and its empty

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Use mount -a instead of rebooting. If you get no output then the mount is working.

I always have weird issues I can’t never seem to understand with cifs. I recommend nfs as an alternative.

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How would I use nfs? just replace ‘cifs’ with ‘nfs’?

I have enabled nfs on my server

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So long as it’s shared via nfs already the fstab format looks like:

ser.ver.ip.add:/full/path/to/share/ /path/to/target/ nfs defaults 0 0

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Based on this.

192.168.1.115:/full/path/to/storage/ /mnt/NAS nfs defaults 0 0

Wherever storage is needs to be the whole path from the root of the drive.

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Thank you very much! I was looking for an alternative to cifs but couldnt find anything

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Does that work for executing your steam games?

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yeah, thanks

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