Hello everyone,
unfortunately I can't mount a remote share on a ubuntu-based Extreme Management Center appliance (8.4.3.24) for ease of schedule automated backups.
After creating a local mounting point and modifying the /etc/fstab file, it is not possible for me to mount a CIFS remote share. Mounting CIFS remote shares requires the Ubuntu cifs-utils package to be installed on the host system - which is obviously missing on an unmodified XMC linux appliance.
What is the recommended way of mounting a remote share on a ubuntu-based XMC appliance?
Should I really upgrade and (post)install the cifs-utils apt packages on a productive XMC appliance? I'm not comfortable with that, because of the many unmet dependencies:
apt install cifs-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cifs-utils : Depends: libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213) but it is not going to be installed
libpython2.7 : Depends: libpython2.7-stdlib (= 2.7.15~rc1-1ubuntu0.1) but 2.7.15-
4ubuntu4~18.04.2 is to be installed
nplan : Depends: netplan.io
udev : Depends: libudev1 (= 237-3ubuntu10.31) but 237-3ubuntu10.39 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
What I have also discovered is that on the linux appliance are two post-install bash scripts:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24209 Apr 11 2020 .postinstall
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17283 Apr 11 2020 .ubuntu-postinst.sh
One component of one of these scripts is the removal of netplan, which is a part of the host system since Ubuntu 18.04, but not used by the XMC linux appliance.
Maybe I missed something. What should I do? Does anyone have a working solution for this problem?
Thanks!
