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. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
