Questions tagged [nas]
The term network attached storage (commonly abbreviated as NAS)
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How to set up Ubuntu Server as a NAS?
I am looking to set up Ubuntu Server as a headless NAS for my home. I would like to have file storage there, as well as a central hub for my MP3s and pictures.
What are the best packages out there to ...
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How to re-add accidentally removed hard drive in RAID5
I have a NAS on Ubuntu Server with 4 2TB hard drives in RAID 5. A couple of weeks ago, one of the hard drives died, but my RAID was working, although degraded. Luckily it was still under warranty and ...
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How can I get read/write access to NFS share of Synology NAS?
I have read access only to the mounted NFS share.
With 'no squash mapping' set on the NAS, Ubuntu regular user gets Permission denied when trying to cd into the share and can only get read access by ...
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Mount UFS filesystem
How do I mount a partition with UFS filesystem (FreeNAS) in Ubuntu 11.10?
I'm a total Ubuntu newbie and just switched from FreeNAS.
There should be ll the info I need I guess, but if anyone would ...
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How do I add a network drive to Plex?
So I've been looking around and can't find an exact solution to my problem. I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04. I like Ubuntu and want to use it instead of windows. Everything was working on ...
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How do I access a local network share in dolphin?
I decided to switch over to Kubuntu for a while, and I backed up my documents on a NAS connected to my local network. I was able to see it and access it in nautilus, but when I try to access it in ...
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How can I preserve file modification times when copying to a NAS?
I recently installed a Synology DiskStation on my network. I mounted it from an Ubuntu 12.04.1 computer with the Browse Network button in Nautilus 3.4.2. It shows up as afp://[email protected]/...
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Running Ubuntu Server from a USB key / thumb drive (being mindful of flash's write limitations)
Having become disillusioned with hacking Buffalo NAS devices, I've decided to roll my own home server. After some research, I have settled on an HP Proliant Microserver with Ubuntu Server and a ZFS ...
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How to mount a Synology Diskstation NAS
I am a long time Windows person, with a little experience in Ubuntu. I am trying to set up Plex Media Server on a new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine. My video library is on a Synology Diskstation NAS named ...
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Add multiple trackers at once with Transmission Remote
I recently bought a QNap I use as download station, so I switched from downloading files with uTorrent on my PC to downloading them with Transmission on the QNap.
I use Transmission Remote to ...
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Need Help connecting WD My Cloud NAS to 14.04
I recently purchased the 2TB WD My Cloud NAS, and now I realize that it doesn't have Ubuntu support and can not figure out how to make it connect. I found this,
http://cocoaallocinit.com/2014/01/04/...
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Connecting to Apple Airport Time Capsule: Got error "kFPAuthContinue" from server
Trying to connect to the time capsule, I've explicitly set my username and password using a separate OSX machine. So I know all of my credentials are correct.
For some reason though, when I try to ...
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how to get user permissions for nfs share?
The situation: I simply want to be able to access a Synology NAS from an Ubuntu Server with a non-root user.
On the NAS I have this in the exports-file:
/Directory <client-ip>/255.255.255.0(rw,...
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What to do about a corrupted ZFS Pool
Have been running a test instance of a NAS using a ZFS as mentioned in Restoring an Ubuntu Server using ZFS RAIDZ for data.
This week one of my disks died. Shouldn't be a problem, should it (the ...
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Error trying to mount FreeBSD/UFS partition from FreeNAS
I get this strange error trying to mount UFS partition.
sudo mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/sdb2 /home/tim/ufs_mount
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2,
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Installation Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS gets stuck on Synology Virtual Machine Manager
I am trying to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS on a virtual machine on my Synology NAS 718+ (Intel Celeron J3455 and 10GB RAM).
(Virtual Machine Manager with a VM setting of 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 50GB ...
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rdiff-backup and running out of disk space. Something weird's going on
I've got an rdiff-backup setup that backs up a largeish sql dump (1.6GB) over a network. The server it's backing up to (Ubuntu 10.10 server) has a small local disk (4GB, 1GB free) but has a cifs mount ...
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Accessing NAS drive in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I'm new to Ubuntu and the world of Linux and am trying to get my Intel NUC with Ubuntu to access my NAS drive.
I've done a fair bit of researching and have so far installed samba and added client min ...
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Issue Mounting NAS
I am trying to mount a NAS on one of my servers:
htadmin@testing:~$ showmount -e 10.0.0.210
Export list for 10.0.0.210:
/humanresources
/Web
/Usb
/...
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NFS won't mount on boot
I am having trouble getting my nfs to mount on boot. I am running Lubuntu 12.04 and mounting from a NAS (Synology-if it matters). I should add that am very new to using Lubuntu or any Linux ...
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How can I diagnose a NAS SMB login failure?
I have a NAS enclosure (Noontec N5) that I can only interact with via a web interface (ie. no ssh). This allows me to expose the SMB service and to add users, with or without a password.
I can log in ...
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Restoring an Ubuntu Server using ZFS RAIDZ for data
Having become disillusioned with hacking Buffalo NAS devices, I've decided to roll my own Home server. After some research, I have settled on an HP Proliant Microserver with Ubuntu Server and ZFS (OS ...
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How to install a minimal Xfce4 GUI on Ubuntu Server 16.04?
I'm building a NAS for my home with Ubuntu Server 16.04.
I would like to know what is the best way to install a very minimal Xfce4 graphical user interface on it in order to complete some frequent ...
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Can no longer access NAS on clean install of 20.04
I did a clean install of 20.04. In files I can see my NAS but can't access it as it does not give the password dialog box.
There are other posts saying to modify the smb.conf file to make this work ...
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How can I find the IP of a NAS connected via SMB?
The question says it all. I have a NAS which was working quite well for quite some time. For some or other reason I started using smb instead of ftp.
Now I can no longer access the configuration ...
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Proper way to mount NAS shares w/o password in fstab?
I have a 10.04 desktop machine that I use as a NAS. I have 3 shares on that box which I've been attaching to via mounting at startup in my fstab. I don't like the fact that have my user name and ...
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How to mount synology SMB2 share on ubuntu
I'm having a hard time mount a SMB2 share from my synology to ubuntu server 16.04.
mount.cifs //NAMEOFNAS.domainname.local/Backup /mnt/NAS/ -U USERNAME
results in following error:
mount error(95): ...
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Ubuntu with no window manager 95% of time
I want to run Ubuntu on a dedicated NAS I am building.
95% of the time I want to run it in as low power mode as possible (although I do want to run Crashplan on it), so I'd like to disable most X ...
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How do I mount Zyxel NSA310 shares?
I have a Zyxel NSA310 NAS, which is working fine with Windows machines in the house. I've also successfully created and mounted an NFS share on the two Ubuntu machines.
But I'd like to mount the ...
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Timeshift backup to Samba NAS drive
I have a Samba NAS that I would like to be able to backup to using Timeshift. I am able to mount it to a folder via cifs-utils, but it does not show as an available local drive in timeshift. Mounting ...
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I can ssh to the server but sshfs gives me 'no matching cipher found: client arcfour server aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr......'
I can ssh to the server, but sshfs fails with the
read: Connection reset by peer
error. I have checked all the cases pointed out in this AskUbuntu question, the user is in the fuse group, ...
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mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting synology NAS drive
My synology NAS will not let my ubuntu computer mount the shared NFS folder to a local folder for my plex server to read
[This is the error I get]
[Command]
sudo mount 192.168.0.27:/Volume1/Movies /...
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What causes the constant messages "the file was changed on disk; reload, ignore?"
The issue
While (in this case) editing a .css file in Bluefish, I am switching to the browser to reload the page and test the result. After that, I switch back to the .css file, and get the message ...
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How to encrypt folders on my NAS with Cryptkeeper?
I use EncFS with Cryptkeeper to manage my encrypted folders (containing personal data files, bank, scans ...).
I would like to encrypt a folder on my NAS Synology but even when I have my NAS folder ...
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Browsers unable to save downloads to network drive after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04
I did a clean install, replacing Ubuntu 20.04 with 22.04. Since then the web browsers (both Chrome & Firefox) cannot save any downloaded files to my network drive (a QNAP NAS). The browsers can &...
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Nautilus cannot write into 1st directory of a NFS share
I have a synology NAS.
On the client I create the directory :
mkdir /media/feydreva/download
chown -R feydreva /media/feydreva
chmod 777 /media/feydreva/download
I can mount my NFS without any ...
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anything better than webmin?
Is there any better web based administration tool than webmin?
Or do you recommend learning setting up everything via ssh? I know my way around terminal, but administering a box seems to complex of a ...
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How can I get Apache to stop showing files and directories on the web page?
I am building an Apache server to work as a http file directory for an application. All is done and working except I can't seem to hide the directories seen when inputting the IP address into a web ...
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Drivepool alternative for Ubuntu
I'm trying to setup my own (home) NAS. I don't want RAID, I want to use a more flexible form:
Mix and match harddrives (now I have 4x 2gb, but for sure when I upgrade I don't want to buy 4 new ones ...
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Remount NAS drive with GVFS and user rights when network re-connects?
I use gvfs script to mount my SAMBA share when my system starts. I run it at autostart.
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 4
wifi="'$(/sbin/iwconfig eth1 | egrep ESSID | cut -d '"' -f 2)'"
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mount encfs over nfs?
I am trying to mount a nas drive in ubuntu 16.04, then create an encfs mount from that for uploading the encrypted contents to the cloud.
/mnt/nas #decrypted (NFS mount from the NAS)
/mnt/.nas #...
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Installing Ubuntu 20.04 (server) as software RAID with three disks
I have a small PC that I'd like to use essentially as a NAS. It has three 2TB drives.
I don't know if this is even possible, but I'd like to use software RAID to somewhat secure the data stored on it....
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Samba share on external drive delays SSH logins
I have a Ubuntu Server 18.04 as well as a NAS on my network. The drives on the NAS are configured to stop spinning after a bit of idle time; they take a noticeable time to start up when needed. That ...
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Ubuntu and Backups
So this is a little strange. I have a NAS that supports NDMP backups but it uses a proprietary file system. It does however support snapshots. I want to setup an Ubuntu server to backup these ...
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Converting m4a to mp3 using sound converter on Network Attached Storage
I am trying to convert m4a files to mp3 for uploading to an mp3 player that doesn't support m4a. All my music is stored on a Buffalo Network Attached Storage (NAS) and I am using Soundconverter. ...
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Setting Up Users and Permissions for a Multi-purpose Home Server
I have decided to repurpose an old grey box computer to be a combination NAS/home media server, headless torrent server, and minecraft server. I am using this both as a practical piece of equipment ...
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NAS setup with Ubuntu
First of all, I have read Simple NAS setup for Ubuntu, which is a bit beyond my needs at the moment.
Briefly, I am new to Ubuntu Linux as some of you already know. I need to build a NAS with Ubuntu - ...
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Error when mounting a NAS drive on Ubuntu Server 11.10
I've got a problem that I just can't figure out. Tried looking at other answers and working through the suggestions, but I still get the same error.
I have a ReadyNAS drive with CIFS enabled and ...
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Slow I/O on an SDHC card
I installed ubuntu desktop version 11.04 on the little NAS box I'm building. I didn't purchase HDD yet, so I tried to install ubuntu on the SDHC card. But it's terribly slow! I would expect it to be ...
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How to set up a shared HDD
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and I added a 2TB HDD to be shared over the network.
My questions are:
1. Do I need to format the HDD as NFS (or other type?? - and how do I do that)?
2. How do I share the ...
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