samba shares after reboot

[dm48624]

I am new to this and I have a problem with my samba shared disks after a reboot.
I just installed elemtary OS 8 on my HP Probook and set up a samba file sharer. I am sharing a second hard drive on my laptop and two usb drives in a local network.
Everything was set up and working, then I rebooted and the shared drives were no longer visible. After playing around I found that if I clicked on each shared drive using the file app, then the shared drive would then be visible on the network.
Here is a picture of the lsblk command just after reboot;

After clicking on each shared drive here is how it looked:

This is what my smb.conf file looks like:

[global]

workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
server role = standalone server
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = Enter\snew\s\spassword:* %n\n Retype\snew\s\spassword:* %n\n password\supdated\ssuccessfully .
pam password change = yes
map to guest = bad user

var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u
################ added by me ############################
usershare allow guests = yes

[anon]
path = "/media/don/Data SSD"
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[seadisk]
path = /media/don/SEA_DISK1
read only = no
browsable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
directory mask = 0777

[x250]
path = /media/don/External_2501
read only = no
browsable = yes
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
directory mask = 0777

Any ideas?

[jeremypw]

Hi. You need to manually edit your fstab file to automount drives on start up. Neither the system nor the Files app does this atm. (see elementary/files#1795 ). There are several web references for how to do this thrown up by Google e.g. https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/mounting-smb-samba-shares-with-fstab/.

[dm48624]

Thanks for your answer. That is what I did and it works perfectly. I had abandoned this at first because I couldn't get fstab to mount the files. This time I kept at it and discovered I had made typos in my mount declarations which caused it to fail. I had all the devices listed as "/dev/sta1" instead of "/dev/sda1".

[jeremypw]

Glad to be of help!