how do i get my NAS to mount at startup?

[przxqgl]

freshly installed bionic, and i can't get my NAS to mount at startup, which means that amarok doesn't treat it as a local drive. i'm really hoping there is another alternative than moving all of my music files to a local drive.

[GreyGeek]

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-confi...-bionic-beaver

or

https://]https://www.digitalocean.co...n-ubuntu-18-04

[przxqgl]

i should probably have mentioned that it is formatted smb -- it's a western digital mycloud... i'm not sure NFS will work. 8/

[GreyGeek]

Did you install samba, smbclient, cifs-utils and their dependencies?

[przxqgl]

yes, i did.

[oshunluvr]

i should probably have mentioned that it is formatted smb -- it's a western digital mycloud... i'm not sure NFS will work. 8/

You're a bit confused here. "SMB" is not a format, it's a network file system. A drive is "formatted" with a file system but the format of the hard drive is irrelevant to any network file system. The native drive format on the server is not exposed to the client.

What is relevant is NFS won't mount SMB, but according to this: http://wdmc99.blogspot.com you should be able to set up NFS if you prefer it over SAMBA. Short version is if you need Windows to share the drive, use SAMBA (aka SMB or CIFS for Linux). If you don't need windows, use NFS.

[przxqgl]

okay, i definitely DO NOT need windoesn't, and i've worked with, and rather liked nfs in the past, although i didn't set them up myself.

i followed the directions given here -- https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-confi...-bionic-beaver -- and got to the step labeled "Mount The Share", gave the command sudo mount 192.168.1.110:/home/salamandir/share /mnt/nfs and was informed that /mnt/nfs doesn't exist. so i sudo mkdir /mnt/nfs and tried it again, and... nothing. i hit the enter key, and nothing happened. no text came up, as far as i can tell, nothing to indicate that it had, or had not been successful. i checked /mnt/nfs and it didn't contain anything new...

so, what did i do wrong?

[GreyGeek]

Do you have a permission problem?

[przxqgl]

when i gave the command sudo mount 192.168.1.110:/home/salamandir/share /mnt/nfs it didn't ask me for my password, it just stopped responding. i had just done two or three sudo commands immediately prior, and my experience is that, in such instances, i only get asked for my password the first time, so it didn't surprise me that i had not been asked for my password, but it did surprise me that nothing happened... i had to ^C to get my command prompt back, which also surprised me.

[oshunluvr]

Sounds like it was stuck waiting for something. First step is to verify the export on the server, then make sure it's available to the client, then try mounting.

Don't forget we're in NFS version-limbo land were we can use either NFS version 3 or 4. It's best to explicitly specify which because the exporting settings are different. I'd offer specific examples but my house was flooded during Florence so my server is not connected at the moment.

Main difference is NFS V3 you export each directory individually but with NFS V4 you can export a single directory and bind mount other directories to the exported directory. I use both versions simultaneously for different needs.

Anyway, the point is you may need an option specifying which version to get the thing to mount.

[przxqgl]

Sounds like it was stuck waiting for something. First step is to verify the export on the server, then make sure it's available to the client, then try mounting.

which would be a lot easier if i actually knew what i was doing. i have worked with NFS drives that had already been set up, in the past, but i didn't do any of the setting-up, and this was in the distant past.

Don't forget we're in NFS version-limbo land were we can use either NFS version 3 or 4. It's best to explicitly specify which because the exporting settings are different. I'd offer specific examples but my house was flooded during Florence so my server is not connected at the moment.

no hurry, i understand.

Anyway, the point is you may need an option specifying which version to get the thing to mount.

which is beyond what https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-confi...-bionic-beaver has to tell me. :-/