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avmad
Jan 23, 2025Aspirant
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...
- Jan 23, 2025
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.
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