{"id":703,"date":"2011-09-11T07:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T12:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2011-09-12T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:56:46","slug":"using-the-nas-for-home-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Using the NAS for Home Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Note: Don’t start following these directions until you’ve read this whole post. The NFS stuff was a dead end.]<\/p>\n

I set up a user for myself on the NAS. Next, I need to connect the NAS<\/a> to my home folder, so I can put the Documents, Music and Videos directories on it. The first step is to enable NFS on the client. In Ubuntu, install nfs-common with Synaptic. To automount directories, install autofs, which will install autofs5.
\nSynology -> Control Panel-> User, Create, then User Home and Enable User Home Service.
\nSynology -> Control Panel -> Shared Folder, select homes, NFS Privileges, Create. Add network segment, e.g., 192.168.1.0\/24 and read\/write. Note mount path at bottom.
\nOn Ubuntu:
\n$ sudo mount -t nfs4 nas:\/volume1\/homes \/mnt<\/code>
\nmount.nfs4: mounting nas:\/volume1\/homes failed, reason given by server:
\n No such file or directory
\n$ sudo mount -t nfs nas:\/volume1\/homes \/mnt<\/code>
\nor
\n$ sudo mount nas:\/volume1\/homes \/mnt<\/code><\/p>\n

work fine, but now I’m concerned with security because NFS doesn’t validate connections by user, but by host and I don’t have common user IDs across my machines. <\/p>\n

Synology has a forum post on linking network drives<\/a> that uses CIFS. I tried this:<\/p>\n

$ mkdir ~\/nas<\/code>
\nAs root, edit \/etc\/fstab<\/code>:
\n\/\/nas\/home \/home\/me\/nas cifs user,uid=me,gid=me,rw,suid,credentials=\/home\/me\/.naspwd 0 0
\n<\/code>
\nEdit ~\/.naspwd<\/code>:
\nusername=nas username<\/em>
\npassword=nas password<\/em>
\n# chmod 0600 ~\/.naspwd<\/code><\/p>\n

As me,
\n$ mount ~\/nas<\/code>
\nmount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on \/\/nas\/home,
\n missing codepage or helper program, or other error
\n (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
\n need a \/sbin\/mount. helper program)
\n In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
\n dmesg | tail or so<\/p>\n

dmesg says:
\nCIFS VFS: No username specified
\nCIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w\/return code = -22<\/code><\/p>\n

Other instructions on the Net use Samba, so I tried that. Installed packages samba, samba-tools, smbfs, samba-doc, xsmbrowser. (You really only need smbfs.)<\/p>\n

Now this works:
\n# sudo mount -t smbfs \/\/nas\/home ~\/nas -o username=nas username<\/em>,password=nas pwd<\/em><\/code>
\nSo does this:
\n# sudo mount -t smbfs \/\/nas\/home ~\/nas -o credentials=\/home\/me\/.naspwd<\/code><\/p>\n

As root, edit \/etc\/fstab<\/code> and change file system type from cifs to smbfs.<\/p>\n

(When later updating another machine, I found out it was smbfs that was needed by cifs, so you can use cifs in \/etc\/fstab<\/code> if you want instead of smbfs.)<\/p>\n

Now, as root
\n# sudo mount \/home\/me\/nas<\/code>
\nworks, but if I run it as me, I get
\nmount error(1): Operation not permitted
\nRefer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)<\/code><\/p>\n

But this is good enough to have my home directory on the Synology DiskStation automatically mapped to ~\/nas on the client. From there, I moved my common directories (e.g., Documents, Videos, and Music) to the NAS directory and made them soft links to the NAS:
\n$ cp -r ~\/Documents ~\/nas
\n$ mv ~\/Documents ~\/Documents-old
\n$ ln -s ~\/nas\/Documents ~\/.<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Note: Don’t start following these directions until you’ve read this whole post. The NFS stuff was a dead end.] I set up a user for myself on the NAS. Next, I need to connect the NAS to my home folder, so I can put the Documents, Music and Videos directories on it. The first step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}