Never mind, did not see that you are sorted before posting.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 15:56 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]>
wrote:

> John,
>
> Nfs needs nfs-common and possibly nfs-client packages installed. Without
> that - nfs will not mount. What gets installed depend on the installer.
>
> What you need to do id:
> sudo apt install nfs-common
>
> Then try to mount it by:
> sudo mount /media/jjj/Synology
>
> You will see it it works or complains.
>
> I assume that your network is working on the laptop and you are connected.
>
> Tomas
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 14:05 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:09:39 -0700
>> "Mike C." <[email protected]> dijo:
>>
>> >>
>> >> For the old Thinkpad I added the same line to its fstab, then
>> >> rebooted. 'Synology' does not appear under Places. I can look in the
>> >> folder where it's supposed to mounted, but the folder is empty. I
>> >> tried 'mount -all' and got:
>> >>
>> >> mount: /media/jjj/Synology: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g.
>> >> nfs, cifs) you might need a a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program.
>>
>> >Is the "old Thinkpad" running a currently updated OS with the
>> >nfs-common package installed on it?
>>
>> I don't know what the nfs-common packages are, but it is a fresh
>> install of 20.04. And it happily connects to the web and e-mail.
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