Samba Mount a persistent drive on samba, here we're using fedora, same apply to other distros using different package manager. Query system make sure cifs utils and samba client are installed, if not run the install command for samba packages and cifs utils sudo dnf install samba-client samba-common cifs-utils csr@MainPC:/mnt$ sudo dnf list installed | grep -E 'cif*|samb' cifs-utils.x86_64 7.0-2.fc39 @anaconda cifs-utils-info.x86_64 7.0-2.fc39 @anaconda cirrus-audio-firmware.noarch 20240312-1.fc39 @System crypto-policies.noarch 20231204-1.git1e3a2e4.fc39 @fedora-updates crypto-policies-scripts.noarch 20231204-1.git1e3a2e4.fc39 @fedora-updates geolite2-city.noarch 20191217-10.fc39 @anaconda libpciaccess.i686 0.16-9.fc39 @anaconda libpciaccess.x86_64 0.16-9.fc39 @anaconda mpdecimal.i686 2.5.1-7.fc39 @System mpdecimal.x86_64 2.5.1-7.fc39 @anaconda pciutils.x86_64 3.11.1-1.fc39 @System pciutils-libs.i686 3.11.1-1.fc39 @updates pciutils-libs.x86_64 3.11.1-1.fc39 @System pcsc-lite-ccid.x86_64 1.5.5-1.fc39 @System perl-Specio.noarch 0.48-4.fc39 @System qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci.x86_64 2:8.1.3-4.fc39 @updates qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl.x86_64 2:8.1.3-4.fc39 @updates samba-client.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-client-libs.i686 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-client-libs.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-common.noarch 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-common-libs.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-common-tools.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-dcerpc.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-ldb-ldap-modules.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-libs.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-winbind.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-winbind-clients.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System samba-winbind-modules.x86_64 2:4.19.5-1.fc39 @System Create a credentials file to hide config from fstab config sudo vim ~/.cred # Enter credentials for SMB share username=youruser password=yourpassword ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Set permisions to file  chmod 600 ~/.cred edit /etc/fstab to add our smb drive //192.168.3.100/zfs /mnt/zfs cifs credentials=/home/csr/.cred,_netdev,defaults 0 0 (optional add file_mode and dir_mode if remote server does not have cifs installed this will provide directory and file permissions if needed) csr@MainPC:/mnt$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may # be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if # disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # UUID=AA4E-9603 /boot/efi vfat defaults,noatime 0 2 UUID=c67309b3-bb04-45fa-8cc6-a26d41301ba5 /boot ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2 UUID=3822a8bd-6ffb-4834-8e9d-f753a4de704e / btrfs subvol=/@,compress=zstd:1,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0 UUID=3822a8bd-6ffb-4834-8e9d-f753a4de704e /home btrfs subvol=/@home,compress=zstd:1,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0 UUID=7062c1a3-df69-4877-b165-c3c9308afd8a swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 //192.168.3.100/zfs /mnt/zfs cifs credentials=/home/csr/.cred,_netdev,defaults,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777 0 0 run  systemctl daemon-reload  then sudo mount -a csr@MainPC:/mnt$ mount -a This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported. mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload. csr@MainPC:/mnt$ systemctl daemon-reload csr@MainPC:/mnt$ mount -a This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported. csr@MainPC:/mnt$ sudo mount -a csr@MainPC:/mnt$ ls zfs csr@MainPC:/mnt$     to umount and mount to modify options 12:05:20 csr@MainPC ~ → sudo umount -t cifs /mnt/zfs/ 12:06:44 csr@MainPC ~ → sudo mount -a mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload. 12:06:52 csr@MainPC ~ → systemctl daemon-reload 12:07:04 csr@MainPC ~ →