The term network attached storage (commonly abbreviated as NAS)

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Ubuntu Server 12.04 NAS setup, which file format to choose/partition scheme?

I just built my NAS hardware, these are the specs CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: Asus P8H77-M PRO Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) ...
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mount: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'

For some reason, I can mount my NAS using cifs as follows: sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.0.210/data -o username=xxxxxxxxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxxxxx,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 ...
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How can I get my western digital hd to work?

The program in the hd won't respond to the cursor.
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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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Recovery Data from failed Raid Disk - NAS

My Western Digital My World Book White Light NAS Drive stopped working. This has a single 1TB Disk. At first I started getting the following error: Volume Status - Volume 'DataVolume' doesn't exist ...
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NAS / 3TB Disks / Boot from USB

I've got an old Intel D510MO Motherboard. I would like to use build myself a mini NAS (RAID level 1). The Problem is it only has 2 SATA Ports and I would like use, at least, 3 TB Disks. From my ...
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Can anyone point me to a guide for installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on to a USB Thumb Drive?

I am currently looking to change my home NAS from FreeNAS to Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS. I have had a look but all the guides I can find are about making a live USB not a USB with the Full install on it. ...
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Running multiple services on a home server

I have this old laptop, but the battery and power adapter are basically shot. Works great as long as it´s not mobile. Anyway it´s now going to be my home server. I´ve got xubuntu 12.04LTS ...
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Can I remote reboot my D-link 320 NAS?

At home in the UK I have a D-Link ShareCentre (DNS320) and I'm in Venezuela at the moment. I have been using it fine for a while (accessing web GUI, etc) but today I an unable to login. I'm getting ...
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Nautilus times out too soon

I have a NAS with all my music on it. It's a large collection, so listing up all folders with artists takes some time. However, Nautilus seems to give a time out when it's not able to fetch the list ...
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Mount NAS from second network

I do have a general question. So far I'm a lucky user of Ubuntu and I like the possibilities. Right now I have on issue concerning connecting my NAS from a second network outside my home network. I ...
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How can I mount remote folder on D-Link 320 automatic?

I have a D-link 320 NAS server with my movies and musics on there. How can I mount it automatic on login? I´m using Ubuntu 12.04 on Ultrabook Samsung Series 5. The path for my data is: ...
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NAS Drive Mounted + local directory

So here's my problem... I have several older machines sitting around on my LAN and a lot of automated tasks to run. On these machines I've created virtual machines that connect to the outside world ...
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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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Cannot create file on NAS

I have a new Western Digital My Book Live 3TB NAS drive and I need to mount it on my ubunto 12.10 laptop. I have created a directory '/NASRichardsWorkLaptop' (changed its ownership and group to ...
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What's easiest way to get nas to mount in12.04

Still fighting to get my nas (dlink) to mount in 12.04, same message as most other folks I see, I've tried a bunch of fstab stuff and i've tried to use samba, not getting it. Is there a step by step ...
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How do I access my D-link Share Center NAS?

Newish to ubuntu, installed 12.10 yesterday and am trying to access my dlink share center (NAS) on my home network. When I go to browse network, it shows up but will not access my files because it's ...
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Not able to see home share on readynas dou

I have just bought a readynas and am trying to mount the user home share created on the nas, which gives me some problems. I try with sudo mount -t cifs -o username=far,password=kanto2000 ...
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where i can find nas share drive nautilus mounted in terminal

Exactly like the title, I managed to open smb nas share from nautilus and bookmark it or map it for future access. Now i'd like to access it using terminal. I tried to find it under /mnt or /media ...
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NFS mount stopped working after 12.10 update

since my upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 I can't mount my NFS shares anymore. I have a QNAP NAS and one Ubuntu machine that was using NFS for mounting. I've used the following lines in /etc/fstab ...
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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 ...
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Ethernet to NAS, Wifi to Internet on same subnet

On my Windows configuration, I use a Wifi to connect to the interwebs: 192.168.1.x (DHCP) Also on my Windows configuration, I have a NAS and a second computer with Ubuntu connected via a switch on ...
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How to share Rhythmbox playlists in a network?

My music is stored on a Synology NAS and Rhythmbox has access via NFS to the music files; works perfect. But how can I share the Rhythmbox playlists? I tried to store the playlists.xml file on the NAS ...
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I can't mount a NAS server with SAMBA from shell, but I can from Nautilus

I have a new Livebox 2 router, this router has a NAS server without password for any HD/USB drive connected. I can connect from Nautilus to the IP: 192.168.1.1 or 'livebox' host. But I can't mount ...
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Most appropriate setup to share music and playlists accross a network?

I have a home network with the following setup: A QNAP NAS (has a DAAP server) A server/media center with XBMC 2 laptops (Linux) 1 desktop (Linux) Android phone iPod For a couple of years I haven't ...
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Mount network NTFS drive as NFS

I have a NTFS NAS mounted on my Ubuntu PC (11.10) to /mnt/nas2/ I wish to set this up as an network drive so my Windows PC can access it. I've tried directly mounting the NTFS NAS to my windows PC, ...
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What is the best filesystem for my needs in 12.04? [closed]

I'm building NAS for my personal use. 3-5 computers as load. Mostly video streaming, upload download of big files 10GB or so(70% of future load), photo editing (20%), office stuff(10%). I'm expecting ...
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How to get Dlink 320 NAS working?

I have a Dlink-320 NAS Server on my network and a Windows 7 desktop machine. But how can I get it working with Ubuntu and Windows 7 at the same time? I also use the NAS Server for torrents.
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Buffalo NAS crashing on Ubuntu on my iMac

I've recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit) on my iMac at work (after following these instructions) My issue relates to the NAS on my LAN - I'm able to browse and view files on the NAS via Ubuntu, ...
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Should I install Ubuntu Server to USB or to disk, when making a NAS?

I've currently set up an old Lenovo M55 with a single 1Tb Seagate Barracuda disk as a NAS at home. Everything is working so far with AFP shares in an Mac-only environment - so far so good! But now I ...
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Sometimes Windows 7 NAS cannot be mounted

I can successfully connect my Xubuntu PC (cable-connected to office network) to a Windows NAS using this line in /etc/fstab: //Hall/Share /media/HallShare cifs ...
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Cheap option for network drive accessible fom linux network for backup purposes

I am looking for a cheap way to make an hard-drive available in my home network for backup purposes. There is also a laptop in the network, so it should be possible to mount and unmount the drive ...
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Example of Procedure for NAS Storage Auto-Mounting

In Windows, I used to "Map Network Drive" and voila, it worked and was there when I started. This is what I would like to happen on Ubuntu, with a slight twist. I'd like to, shall we say, "remap", my ...
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Convert existing internal hard disk into network attached storage

How can I setup an internal 3.5" SATA hard disk, with existing data on an ext4 partition, so that I am able to access the data on WLAN? What product should I be looking for to turn the bare drive ...
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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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Is it possible to sync a folder from NAS drive to Ubuntu One Cloud?

I am running Ubuntu One on Windows 7. I have a Synology DS212+ NAS drive that I would ideally like to back up to my cloud. However, Ubuntu One only allows me to backup from the user documents folder ...
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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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Mount NFS share as a shortcut

I recently purchased a Netgear ReadyNas and have a question about mounting an NFS volume. Firstly I know how to mount the share in fstab. There is a lot of information around that describes how to do ...
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How to mount NAS folders via direct wired connection?

There are two machines connected to each other via network cable. One is notebook Ubuntu 12.04. Another is NAS Western Digital with a Debian. The NAS has some files shared via samba. I am not sure ...
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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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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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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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How can I move files across network? — unattended / handles errors without waiting for user input?

I am occasionally moving lots of files around (50+ GB) from one HDD to another over my LAN. This takes a while. I often come back to find that it stopped somewhere waiting for user input when there ...
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Why can't i copy files to my NAS?

I can normally access all of my NAS shares without issue from my Ubuntu laptop. I have bookmarked all of the shares without issue, although they are a little slow to access. However moving files ...
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FreeNAS and Ubuntu install on same machine

I wanted to know if anyone has installed FreeNAS and Ubuntu on the same machine by partitioning the Hard Drive? What I'm looking to do is have a NAS and wanted to experiment running OwnCloud. Or and ...
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GoFlex Home drive visible but won't mount

How do I get the "GoFlex Home" network drive to mount in ubuntu 10.4?
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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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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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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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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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