samba share in /etc/fstab is ignored during mount -a but manual mount works

It's one of these problems I'm running into every time that I set up a server :-(
I have an Ubuntu server 16.04 and would like to auto-mount a samba share.

In my /etc/fstab I have the entry:

//10.10.2.2/share    /media/share    cifs    defaults,_netdev,noauto,nofail,username=user,passwd=pass    0    0

When I execute

sudo mount -a 

I get no error message but the share is not mounted :-(

The most interesting part however is that if I do a

sudo mount /media/share

The share is mounted

I had various problems with samba before but this behavior is new for me. Does anybody have an idea how to address this issue?

Solution 1:

That's normal behaviour if you set noauto. From man mount:

noauto Can only be mounted explicitly (i.e., the -a option will not cause the filesystem to be mounted).