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How do you work / mount with files stored on your Synology NAS on Ubuntu linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I recently decided to make the switch from Windows to Ubuntu (Pop_OS) and I'm struggling to setup my NAS on my new OS.

I can mount my folders without issues and access them on different file managers (Nemo, Dolphin), but I'm having issues accessing them from my installed applications.

For example if I want to modify tags for my audio files (which takes 80% on my Synology drives) I cannot find them in the application(s).

I can't right click on the files and use 'open with' and I cannot drag n' drop the files to the tag editor, so I try to find the with the applications:

Ex Falso: no network share is available on the sidebar / navigation bar, nothing in 'other locations'
Puddletag: same
NTag : same

How are we supposed to make this work? I just want to be able to access my files without having to download them on my local disk and send them back to my Synology every time I want to do this.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

install the NFS client package.

Have a look at adding a line to the

/etc/fstab file. Then reboot to take effect.

Check this out:

https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-mount-an-nfs-share-in-linux/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks! That's a great reference and I'll keep that in my bookmarks 👍

Eventually (with help from others) I mounted the share with

sudo mount -o rw,soft,intr,nfsvers=4 192.your.NAS.IP:/volumeNAME/some-path /nfs

(I don't put it on my fstab to save a bit of wear on my NAS)

Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're welcome.

I've not thought about nor worried about wear and tear. I did a search but didn't find anything. Are you just being cautious? Or perhaps you only access files occasionally?

Either way, you may want to creat a bash alias in your .bashrc file so that you can type a simple command like mountnas or 'nas' and you might have another to run the umount command to unmount it.

Since my NAS runs my camera recordings and backups and some containers, I figure wear from mounting conveniently shouldn't be an issue...

Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hi again !

You guessed right: I indeed use those files on my computer very occasionally and I'd rather make a shortcut / alias (like you rightly suggested) than mounting the share at every boot. True, if you have quality disks (which are getting more difficult to find nowadays) you shouldn't be worried about wear.

On a side note I could do my tag editing just fine, thanks again for your help!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Cheers! Thanks for your reply.

Lemmy folks are nicer folks :)

Have a good day