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Mount shared ReadyNAS folder on Ubuntu
Hi! I am having a problem trying to mount an NFS shared folder on Ubuntu 20.04. I have followed the instructions here, as well as several other sites with similiar instructions. The readyNAS 104 ...
If you are going to use SMB, you need a shared folder and user with access to it on the NAS. That user doesn't need to be the same user as on your Ubuntu system. You could use the NAS admin user, but that's not usually a good idea.
You mount an NFS share without a user name or password. But you do also need to mount a specific share. You had the command right in your orignal message, I just don't think you had NFS enabled on the NAS and/or share. If you expect to do it a lot, you may want to put something in fstab instead.
I'm not sure why schumaku says NFS is too complex. Certainly not as secure, but actually less difficult than SMB IMHO (at least with a Linux client). And I prefer to use a native Linux file system for sharing with a Linux system. The NAS does the "hard part" for you, exporting the NFS share when you set up NFS via the GUI.
Sandshark wrote:I'm not sure why schumaku says NFS is too complex. Certainly not as secure, but actually less difficult than SMB IMHO (at least with a Linux client).
NFS on it's own might be K.I.S.S. but never correct.
How do you suggest to make things correctly matching between (UID, GID; usernames, groups, ... between average consumer Linux setup and last but not least the very different access rights in place by ACLs for SAMBA? And finally not end in a mess....
In a mixed environment, SMB is the way to go. In a fully managed Linux or U**x environment (all NFS clients and NFS servers in perfect sync) ideally with LDAP or better no doubt NFS is great.
For the average user with various U**x-like workstations SMB is again much easier. Linux desktop environments allow wirking on the network as easy as on a Windows system. You manage the NAS, and you have everything right.
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