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Aspirant

Nov 19, 2022

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Problems mounting Netgear ReadyNAS Duo NFS share on Ubuntu

I've run into problems recently trying to access my ReadyNAS Duo v2 from a Linux box, running Unbuntu (with Plex and other duties)

Everything has run fine previously for several years - but I'm now getting a mount system call failure on the client. NFS is enabled for the share from Frontview, with the correct IP address of the client specified.

I've also tried SMB with no luck either.

Any ideas much appreciated - I'm tearing my hair out trying to fix it !

PartTimer
Nov 22, 2022
Sandshark & StephenB

Thanks both for your quick responses. I managed to solve in the end by specifying the NFS version (using "mount -t nfs -o mountvers=3 ...") seems ubuntu & the NAS can't decide to play nicely without you explicitly telling them which version to use.

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StephenB
Guru
Nov 19, 2022
PartTimer wrote:

I've run into problems recently trying to access my ReadyNAS Duo v2 from a Linux box, running Unbuntu (with Plex and other duties)

Duo or Duo v2?

The labels are confusing, and frequently result in people identifying their model incorrectly.

The original Duo (called v1 here)

says ReadyNAS Duo on the front panel

runs 4.1.x firmware

often has labels that say v2 on the back or bottom.

The Duo v2

says ReadyNAS Duo v2 on the front panel

runs 5.x firmware.
- Sandshark
  Sensei
  Nov 19, 2022
  How are you mounting them, via fstab? Have you tried manually? Are you getting any error messages when you do?
  
  Any changes made to the NAS configuration that might have had an unintended consequence?
  - PartTimer
    Aspirant
    Nov 21, 2022
    The model is a readyNAS duo v2 running Raidiator 5.3.13
    
    I'm mounting through fstab with:
    192.168.1.102:/c/Films /films/ nfs defaults 0 0
    
    where 192.168.1.102 is the IP address of the NAS (which I can ping from the linux box), and the /films directory is already created.
    nfs-common package is also installed and updated
    
    Not entirely sure what you mean by mounting "manually" - but if I try "sudo mount 192.168.1.102:/c/Films /films/" I get the same error "mount.nfs: mount system call failed"