Questions tagged [nas]
The term network attached storage (commonly abbreviated as NAS)
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DAS Storage for Ubuntu NAS
I want to use Ubuntu to make a server, if my computer has no HDD bays can I use a DAS connected to the computer as the storage for that server? I would get a DAS that is connected via USB.
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NAS not connecting after server name change
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. After a NAS server name change it won't connect. I'm guessing I need to clear out the cache? If so how do I do that? I don't connect by name, I connect via IP address. Error I get ...
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Need to repair or remount NAS drive [closed]
After a long effort with Thunderbird and nothing else I began getting this message when trying to access my NAS drive.
Unable to access "mydrive"
mount.cifs:permission denied
But the one ...
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Mapping devices in a pool to physical drives
I'm setting up a Ubuntu NAS by repurposing a PC, and decided to go with the ZFS file system. I'd like to map the devices in a pool to physical drives (6 identical 12TB drives), so that I know which to ...
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Refresh external changes on mounted samba share
I have a samba share running on a NAS and two laptops running ubuntu 23.04 accessing it as mounted drive (using cifs). So let's say I create a file on the mounted folder on laptop 1. Is there a way to ...
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Unmounting Synology NAS drives before from Linux machine before shutting down the drives
So I work in a lab which has a Linux machine (22.04 LTS jammy) as the main computer to manage a file server. The Linux machine has a network interface that allows multiple computers in the lab to ...
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How can I fix “temporary failure in name resolution UBUNTU 22.04
I’m attempting to configure a static IP with the command:
$ sudo nano /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml
I edited all the information. The second screenshot will show how I attempted to ...
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Install helix-p4d on arm64
I'm actually trying to install a helix core server (p4d) on a QNAP TS-233 (NAS) with a Cortex-A55@2Ghz (ARM64 processor) but there is no arm64 package available from their site.
Did someone manage to ...
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Networking a Dell on Ubuntu 22.04 to an old Dell running the latest Openmediavault using both CIFS and NFS. Permission problems
I initially had problems getting the mount commands to work. The OMV NAS has a share named "share" for CIFS and a share named "nfs-share" for NFS. In both cases, the OMV shares ...
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Mounting iSCSI LUN to Ubuntu using open-iscsi
It would be helpful if anyone can share some step-by-step guides using Ubuntu Linux Server minimal edition without GUI, to mount the iSCSI LUN using Open-iSCSI so it is mapped to /dev/sdb.
I would ...
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Not able to copy or rsync files to nas drive
I have mounted mybookliveduo with command mount_afp afp://user:[email protected]/SmartWare ~/mybookliveduo
I can enter the directory, list its contents and copy files FROM it in terminal.
I also can ...
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How to unlock encrypted drives on a headless server?
I'm planning a homemade NAS-build with the following features:
Standard Ubuntu server installation with SSH server
Two Btrfs RAID1 drives on encrypted HDDs with dm-crypt
NFS shared folders from ...
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Can't access public samba share: Permission denied
I don't get a public samba share working. This is really giving me some headache. I'm trying to have a private share, that authenticates with a password for specific user (this part is working fine) ...
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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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NFS mount to NAS folder causes /mnt directory to become unresponsive; NAS also becomes unresponsive
I've just spun up a new Asustor NAS on my network and have been deciding how I want to configure and connect to it. I'm currently using NFS to mount shared folders I've created on the NAS. While ...
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How to see free space of permanently mounted drive (Ubuntu 22.04)
I'm building from scratch a NAS with one 240 Gb NVME, to which I already added an other internal SSD of 250 Gb.
Thing is, as I mounted it to /ssd as specified in the /etc/fstab, I can't seem to find ...
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Back up Ubuntu 22.04 into Synology [duplicate]
I want to do a full backup of Ubuntu 22.04.01 on my DS218 Synology. I will like to do a full backup, with the possibility to have a single version or multiple versions. Also the most important is the ...
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Faster network access from Ubuntu to a NAS, is caching possible?
I previously used Windows; my new computer will be on Ubuntu with an M.2 NVME bootable. Also moving most of my files over to two NAS: one QNAP and one TrueNAS. I will access them over 1Gb Ethernet.
I ...
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What is wrong with my smb.conf? I can browse files but not read them
I have an old Asus router with USB3 port that I have set up Samba, and it only support SMB1 (NT1)
Here is my smb.conf:
[global]
server string = File Server
workgroup = PERSONAL
client lanman auth = ...
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How to troubleshoot hdparm?
I'm setting up a NAS, and I would like the HDs to spin down when I am not doing anything (i.e., most of the time), but I am having trouble realising this with hdparm.
I can spin down the HDs manually, ...
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cannot access NAS wd mycloudex2 ultra
I have a combined home network containing various windows machines as well as a WD MycloudEX2 Ultra. I recently became interested in trying out Linux and installed Ubuntu 22.04 to learn about the OS.
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Secure exposure of services from a home NAS
I have a machine running Ubuntu Server that acts like a NAS for local file storage.
I would now like to access it remotely as well as expose some services like FTP, chat and game servers to the ...
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Why can I no longer connect to my NAS using cifs
This is curious, it stopped working on my VirtualBox Linux using lubutu 20.0.4 and my Ubuntu machine 20.04.04 at the same time. I am able to connect with Windows with no problem. However, when I use ...
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Can't connect to NAS "Failed to retrieve share list from server. Software caused connection abort."
After restoring from a backup, Ubuntu 20.04 will not connect to my Ethernet router connected LG NAS. I had this problem when I first switched to Linux and solved it but I can't remember how. I thought ...
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Issue accessing local NAS via NFS when opevpn service enabled
I have a VM running Ubuntu 22.04 and i have been having some issues with mounting a local NFS share to the VM when the openvpn NordVPN client connection is running. I believe the issue is that request ...
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Installing LetsEncrypt on localhost via Synology DNS server
For developing websites I have setup a few virtual Ubuntu machines.
Every machine has its own local IP address with incremental last number (192.168.2.10, 192.168.2.11 etc.)
To access the webserver, I ...
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Network folder asks password everytime accessing files
Hi I am using USB HDD as NAS and I have shared it over FTP and SMB.
From windows the network folder is mapped and it is getting acessed without issues. But from Linux I am getting error while ...
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Why is Ubuntu Server NAS partition changing automatically filesystem to "read only" during backups?
UPDATE 05/13: I ran simultaneous backups from 3 workstations (3 different Samba users) yesterday (Windows image backups - almost 47 GB the biggest file, .vhdx type). I noticed that 1 Samba users wrote ...
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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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Error while doing apt update [duplicate]
I have to say I'm quite new to Linux, but I'm trying to create a small NAS by following a guide for this.
I got to a point in which the guide tells me to install "Webmin" and I couldn't ...
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Mount NAS Ubuntu 20.04
I'm trying to mount a NAS that is on my local network.
This website tells me to use
$ mount <NAS Ethernet Interface IP>:/share/<Shared Folder Name> <Directory to Mount>
I'm a little ...
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can not detect NAS [closed]
After the latest kernel update to Mint 20.1 my NAS is no longer discovered. My backup util mounts the windows share and that shows in nemo, plus I can go up the directory and mount other shares from ...
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How to set up 2 ethernet in Kbuntu?
I have a problem setting up my network with ubuntu.
In my office we have several pc, and a NAS. Most of the PCs (all windows) connects to internet, and to NAS via 1Gbit ethernet, but mine has a direct ...
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Looks an easy mistake? cifs_mount failed w/return code = -2 /etc/fstab
I'm fairly new to Ubuntu and I'm attempting to create a Plex Server, I've done the install but I cannot mount my NAS?!?!.. I've decided to log into a Mint VM and to use the command line to try to ...
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20.04 update causes network errors and file copy corruption to windows clients
I have a customer that has a Ubuntu 20.04 VM running inside a qNAP NAS server providing information management functionality to windows 10 clients. The VM is joined to their domain but the qNAP server ...
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qnap nfs mounting delays after Ubuntu Updated
After last Ubuntu Update (20.04 LTS), when I mount my qnap nfs shares:
It delays for several minutes (prior to this, it took 1 second to mount it)
During that "long mounting time"... I can ...
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Help me choose a drive pooling strategy for my NAS / media server
I'm currently running a NAS with a Ryzen 1600, 16GB of memory, Ubuntu Server, a small SSD for the OS and two 8TB HDDs (mounted at /data and /backup). Both drives are ext4 formatted and about 60% ...
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Two way synch from Desktop to (ReadyNas) network drive
I am trying to make my documents folder synchronise with my ReadyNas network drive.
Currently, I am already synchronising my Windows Laptop's Documents folder with the network drive on my ReadyNas via ...
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plex cant see my file path help?
Long story short, I switch to Linux from mac OS originally. First, I tried Pop OS and it was great. After seeing Budgie, I wanted to switch to Ubuntu.
I had followed this article while using Pop to ...
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Ping to avahi device does not work all the time
I just added a NAS to my home network and gave it the hostname mynas. I tried to access the NAS from Kubuntu 20.04 (especially via Samba). It works fine when using plain hostname, but it fails when ...
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Adding a network share to Plex server as a library
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 in a virtualbox to test out my use cases before taking the plunge and installing it on my machine, trying to get plex server configured to communicate with my Asustor NAS and ...
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how to mount synology without removing external hard drive in /mnt
I have 2 external HDD connected to my pc. I followed the Synology instructions and ran the command sudo mount -t nfs 196.168.x.x:/volumeX/test /mnt this caused my currently connected external HDD to ...
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Dolphin reading remote folders is slow
I've mounted several folders from a my NAS and when I try to access them using Dolphin with KDE Plasma 5, it starts to read and try to get the number of elements of each folder.
It takes a lot of time ...
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Mount a network-attached drive with xfs file system and username/password requirement
I am running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, and I recently purchased a Buffalo LS210D27F network storage drive and attached it to my network. I can access the drive's dashboard through a web browser, but I do ...
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Which file transfer protocol will support Linux-like file names with NAS?
I am using Ubuntu 21.04, and I need use Nautilus to transfer files between Ubuntu and a NAS.
The NAS supports AFP, FTP, and SMB transfer protocols.
Therefore, I can only use the following paths in ...
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Problems to read a Synology raid1 disk in Ubuntu
I'm trying to recover the data from a disk of a Synology NAS. It was stored in a 2 disk RAID1. One of the disk broke and I didn't replace it. After some months, Synology station broke too, and now I ...
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Wired network connection keeps disconnecting
Recently, I've been trying to install and setup a Synology NAS server (DS920+) on our Ubuntu server (18.04) at work, and I am facing some connection issues with the wired connection (ethernet ...
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mount nfs correctly
I have purchased a WD-Ex2 NAS and am trying to share a folder via nfs with my ubuntu machine.
This folder will be used only by this machine and I want to be able to have execute permissions with my ...
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How to add a new drive to a RAID (mdadm), when that RAID is encrypted (LUKS), and makes up a physical volume in a volume group (LVM)?
I'm looking to add a new drive to an existing NAS server, and would appreciate a second look at my plan before I pull the trigger. Part of the challenge is the new disk will be added to an existing ...
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I have a Terra-Master F4-210 NAS & Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop edition. All I want to do is setup a network drive so I can access my files from any local PC
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Hi there, I am looking for help. I want to access my Network Attached Storage (NAS) Terra-Master F4-210 on my Ubuntu 20.04 PC to read and write files that may have been stored in other ...
