My 2-bay Synology NAS (DS216j) would mount automatically because I had this line in fstab:
192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology /media/jjj/Synology nfs auto,user 0 0 Today I removed the sole drive from the Synology and replaced it with two new 8TB WD red pro drives. Using the Synology web manager I fumbled around for a long time, but finally got them set up as Raid 0. I gave the volume the name Synology, and it is volume 1 (the only volume). The computer is Xubuntu 14.04 up to date. My usual file management is with Thunar, the default GUI file manager for Xfce. I have Thunar set up with a left bar which has at the top 'Devices' where the Synology is listed along with File System, plus any other external drives. Unmounted drives are grayed out, but clicking on the drive automatically mounts it. However, I did not need to do this with the Synology because the fstab line always mounted it on boot. Having set up the Synology with the new drives I clicked on Synology in Thunar praying that it would 'just work' and display no files. But instead I got a complete list of all the files on the old drive, now sitting on a shelf. That made no sense, so I used Thunar to navigate to /media/jjj/Synology. Again I got a complete file list, but by right-clicking on the Synology folder and selecting Properties I saw that the entire folder was 2.47GB, ridiculous as the old drive had 4.5TB of data on it. At this point I renamed /media/jjj/Synology to ...SynologyOld, and then created a new Synology folder. This time Thunar showed no files in the new folder. So then I tried to mount it from the command line: sudo mount 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology /media/jjj/Synology mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.115:/volume1/Synology I tried setting up nfs permissions on the Synology, but so far this has failed. Nevertheless I can get into the Synology from both my laptop and my desktop using (from the bottom of the left bar in Thunar) Browse Network. This listed 'Synology (File Sharing)' and clicking on it displayed the volume on the Synology. I confirmed that this worked by dragging a small text file to the Synology volume with the laptop, then refreshing the view on the desktop, and the file appeared. Thunar is not very forthcoming with information about what it is doing here. If I click on 'Synology' at the top of the left bar I get the error message as from the command line above. Yet if I use 'Browse Network' from the bottom of the left tab it can display the Synology volume which I can then manage the same as any other folder. How it does this, apparently without mounting the Synology volume, is a mystery. The problem is that my rsync command won't work unless the volume is normally mounted: jjj@Devil-Bonobo:~$ rsync -rptog --delete --exclude-from=/media/jjj/Movies/rsync_exclusions /media/jjj/Movies/ /media/jjj/Synology Now that I have the Synology configured with its new drives I want to use the rsync command to back up the USB drive at /media/jjj/Movies to the Synology. I need some clues! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
