@Joulinar Sorry for lots of replies, I didn’t bother with adding a new Samba drive. I put the same network drive text back onto /etc/fstab/ and ran DietPi-Drive_Manager after another reboot, I think this is what you were asking for:
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | Detecting drives, please wait...
df: /mnt/smbshield: No such device
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | - Detected mounted physical drive: /dev/mmcblk0p2 > /
[ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | - Detected mounted physical drive: /dev/mmcblk0p1 > /boot
After this text slowly shows, maybe one line every minute, another few more lines of text show up very quickly and it loads the blue background screen for “DietPi-Drive_Manager”
Hmmm so I’m not sure what happened but it doesn’t appear to be showing the 8TB drive anymore at all, whatsoever. Double checked and yes the drive is plugged in via USB, and powered on.
The drive (/mnt/F65....) is not mounted. Mark the right entry, hit enter and mount it.
Also some posts ago you said you wanna set up a new samba share but you tried to install samba client, which was already installed.
So I think here is a misunderstanding.
The fstab/drive manager is to mount an already set up samba share, from a samba server.
But I think you want to setup a share on your device, right?
You weed need to intall samab server (dietpi-software install 96)
probably due to the back and force of using drive manager the entry got lost. Simly select the device /dev/sda2 and mount it again to /mnt/8tb
Regarding the Samba share, it seems your DietPi device has issues to connect to the server side. Are you sure the Samaba server side is working correctly? Any special things happen to the Samba server? Any update? Did you changed password? Maybe using special characters?
While trying to mount the Samba share, have a look to kernel error messages and system log afterwards. Maybe there are some usefull information
