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Using my ReadyNAS 104 from Linux with NFS
Hello all, Up to now I have used my ReadyNAS 104 (firmware 6.10.0) from Windows. I have now rebuilt one of my machines with Linux Mint 22 and will do the same with my nother machines after I have...
avmad wrote:
The current teething problem is accessing my NAS from Linux. I had thought that CIFS was the way to do this but have just been told that NFS is the way to go.
CIFS (SMB 1) is very old and being deprecated. SMB 3 is well supported on Linux, so there is no reason not to use it.
But if you want NFS for some reason, you can just enable it in system->settings and for each share. The default settings on the NAS should be fine.
avmad wrote:
The current teething problem is accessing my NAS from Linux. I had thought that CIFS was the way to do this but have just been told that NFS is the way to go.
CIFS (SMB 1) is very old and being deprecated. SMB 3 is well supported on Linux, so there is no reason not to use it.
But if you want NFS for some reason, you can just enable it in system->settings and for each share. The default settings on the NAS should be fine.
Thank you!
I have enabled NFS at both the system and the share levels.
Should I enable NFSv4? What else do I need to enter?
avmad wrote:
Should I enable NFSv4?
I wouldn't, unless you need a v4 feature.
avmad wrote:
What else do I need to enter?
Probably nothing. Though you might find you get better performance if you reduce the number of threads to 4. The RN100 series doesn't have a lot of memory, and 4 threads would require fewer resources.
Just something to keep in mind if the performance seems sluggish.
Once you have enabled NFS on the Settings page and individually for each share you need to access, you will need to map the shares to a directory on your Linux system. I have a Pro2 dedicated to running OwnCloud and have several directories on my main NAS mapped in Read Only mode to that machine. That way, uploads can only go to the Pro2 but I can give access to shares on my main NAS for download. I decided to go with NFS instead of Samba for the mapping because it retains the Linux permissions.
Just Google how to map drives in Linux. You can do so temporarily via the command line or put them in fstab to make them automatic. Since I don't use any Linux system with a GUI on a regular basis, I don't know how to do it there, but I suspect there is a way.
Hey all,
I'm back, with an update:
Found some tutorials on mounting NFS shares on YouTube and wrote down the set of commands I was going to try. First up was to move my mount points from /mnt to /media, which I did (although in the tutorial video I was watching, he moved them to below his home directory):
Then install nfs-common...
sudo apt install nfs-common
That seemed to run ok but as often happens, a thought pinged to me - "What would I see if I viewed my NAS within Files right now?" In fact, I see this:
So next, I tried to click into the Music directory and was prompted for creds.
I wasn't expecting that as the tutorial I had been watching had stated that Linux wouldn't normally require user authentication on each share.
BTW - I see that '.local' has been appended onto the end of my NAS name. Will I need to take account of that when I come to actually issuing a mount command?
If I was to manually issue a mount command of the Backup share right now, would it look like this?
sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.41:/backup /media/nfs_backup
EDIT: I guess not, as typing that yielded:
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/remote-fs.target.wants/rpc-statd.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/rpc-statd.service.
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.41:/backupAnyway, I went back into the NAS again to look at the share setup. It looks like this:
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Does anyone have further wisdom for me in terms of getting this up and running?
Thanks.
I can't see your screen dumps until they are approved, but did you first create an empty /media/nfs_backup?
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