I use autofs for things like
ls /net/computerHostName/NFSexportName
To access remote network shares on demand, and nothing else. I install
it on every PC, myself.
I found that putting a NFS share in /etc/fstab meant hangs at shutdown
if there was some networking problem anywhere. And if it wasn't
available at boot time, you had to manually intervene.
The access a remote share simply by calling its filepath somewhere,
solved those problems.
Other things, like inserted USB flash drives or optical discs, were
handled fine by the desktop environment (Mate, at the moment).
I haven't use SMB for decades. It was a pain, and I only used to
access shares from a Windows PC. I was glad to see the back of it.
Various interfaces between different devices and networks did annoying
things such as UID/GUI squashing and their own ideas of default file
permissions. Instead of saving files as the current user the same as
any locally stored file in their homespace.
I know there are safety concerns about NFS, but this is within an
isolated LAN. SSH and SFTP are used to cross over into the WWW.
I've found that if in fstab the parameters of "0 0" are added to the end
of the mount entry, to turn off checking, if the network drive is not
available at boot or shutdown the process does not hang (it does go thru
a mount count up until it times out though).
I'm in a potentially worse situation though than other people in that my
NAS device is that old that either CIFS or NFS (I've forgotten which at
the moment as I'm not mounting the device at the moment) requires the
specification of VERS=1.0 in order to mount the device because it
doesn't support the current version.
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