Questions tagged [nfs]
Network file system protocol allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed.
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VLC Won't Open Files from NFS Share
I have an mkv file on a Synology DS220j mounted via NFS. If I right click the file and open with VLC it throws an error:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///nas
I have to copy it locally to the ...
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nfs mount causes freeze in terminal (after suspend?)
Running Ubuntu 15.10 desktop. Mounted up some folders with NFS4 from a Synology diskstation using fstab. This is example line in fstab file:
x.x.x.x:/volume1/projects /home/x/Projects nfs auto 0 0
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Freeze on losing network connection
When I mount a server file system that is located in a local network over nfs on my laptop, the processes interacting with the filesystem freeze / hang up whenever the network connection is lost. The ...
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Snap with NFS Shares
Just switched to Ubuntu and am having issues accessing files stored on my NFS share when I use GIMP, VLC, and Audacity. All other software works great with my NFS shares. After spending a day ...
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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]
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sudo mount 192.168.0.27:/Volume1/Movies /...
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Getting time out error using NFS on Synology NAS
I know this question has been asked a few times, but please bear with me. I'm new to Linux (only been using for a few months, but I like to think I have learnt fairly quickly, and am halfway confident ...
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Vagrant NFS folders + Firewall rules
I am trying to configure the firewall -via the GUI tool- on 14.04 by adding rules to allow NFS folder sharing with my vagrant box. However this only works when the firewall is disabled as on vagrant ...
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Mounting and accessing Western Digital's MyCloud NAS
I have bought a Western Digital Mycloud disk. I did succeed to mount it under Lubuntu 13.10 by means of the following command:
sudo mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
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Is it possible to boot a LiveCD of Ubuntu via PXE using HTTP (not NFS)?
I've found a lot of blogs explaining how to boot the installer via PXE. And I've achieved it. But now I would like to boot a LiveCD. I've seen many blogs explaining how to do this using a (DHCP+TFTP+)...
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MountVolume.setup failed for volume “…”: mount failed: exit status 32
My OS is Ubuntu, using openshift, and one pod keep pending, because nfs server cannot be mounted (nfs server is able to be mounted by mannually using command line, but cannot be mounted from the Pod)
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allow user to mount synology nfs share without sudo
Is there a way to allow non-root, non-sudo users to mount synology NFS shares as themselves (not sudo)? I want to allow users to mount their own shares and benefit from the increased performance of ...
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What are the alternatives for setting up a common directory and accounts?
We have a network of 12 machines and one server at the moment connected by a gigabit switch in a single room. We want every user to be able to log in and use their account on any machine, as well as ...
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How to mount NFS shares in Ubuntu Core?
I'm testing Ubuntu Core in a Raspberry Pi 3 and I would like to use NFS to connect to exports on my NAS.
In the "normal" servers that I have I just add a line in /etc/fstab for each mount, but in ...
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NFS mounted home dirs, Is it safe to restart the server's NFS service?
The purpose of this NFS server is to provide all users consistent access to their files and settings by serving their home dirs.
The server is running Ubuntu 12 and the NFS config is at it's defaults....
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Automouting NFS share inside NAT'd LXC container fails
I have 2x Ubuntu 14.04 LXC setups
One is on bare metal hardware and containers are assigned IP adresses directly from the network
The other one is on an ESXi virtual machine and using NAT via the ...
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Why does NFS hang after each file is copied?
When I'm bulk copying files to my NAS over NFS, the file operation will hang for about 20 seconds after each file is copied. Originally I thought is was just the POS consumer NAS box I was using with ...
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Seem /etc/exports can only export one directoy
on the nfsserver (called ubuntu) the /etc/exports contains
/media/ext 192.160.1.0/24(rw)
/home/file 192.160.1.0/24(rw)
On the client machine sudo mount -t nfs ubuntu:/home/file /mnt was executed, ...
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PXE boot ubuntu 12.04 Customization
Just configured my Ubuntu 12.04 server to play host to a diskless PXE/NFS system. Currently I'm deploying the Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop Live CD to all my clients (derived from the install CD). My question ...
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Why are mounted iso's not browseable via an NFS share/mount?
Try it out please:
download an iso and place it in /data/iso
eg:
[root@geppetto ~]# ls -al /data/iso
total 708620
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 17 14:40 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 ...
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fstab and systemd
On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 23.04, I have an entry in my /etc/fstab:
yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:/storage /storage nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0
If I want to mount the NFS ...
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NFSD client IP testing state ID with incorrect client ID
I've been seeing these messages in my local NFS server logs:
NFSD client 192.168.0.126 testing state ID with incorrect client ID
Googling for this doesn't give much:
This ticket seems to think it's ...
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Ubuntu auto mount exfat drive allow_other non root users access
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I have an exfat formatted drive.
I'm able to unmount and mount it on an ubuntu 20.04 desktop.
I can read files from it, however, I can only write files as root/sudo user. I've tried a lot of ...
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cachefilesd vs NIS automounter
I want to cache NFS mounts
My NFS mounts are handled by the automounter which is governed by NIS
I need to add the mount option, fsc, to the mounts to enable the cache
=> Where do I add this option?...
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mount.nfs requested NFS Version or transport protocol not supported -- Ubuntu 18.04
I have nfs-common installed. I believe I have version 4 installed
Every time I try to mount the NFS it gives the same error
mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported
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System hangs when writing files to NFS share
I have an unusual problem with my NFS configuration.
I'm building a NAS, so I tried setting up FreeNAS on VirtualBox. It all works fine, I can read/write to the share with sshfs without any problems. ...
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How do I debug errors with enabling the NFS kernel module?
I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and wanted to use an NFS shared drive.
On most of my servers it just simply worked with
sudo modprobe nfs.
But on this specific server, which was set up exactly the ...
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NFS client permissions
I am trying to configure the permissions of an NFS client and would like to allow on client nfs to be able to copy the files and not delete the files. how can i do this?
Is it possible to restrict ...
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Mount from fstab always mounts as root
I've read all the related questions but I can't make it work. On my ubuntu 16.04 server I want to mount an external vfat disk to share via nfs.
I have made a folder (/media/passport) which finally ...
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Systemd mount.nfs fails: Network is unreachable on Ubuntu 16.04
I've setup an NFS mount in the /etc/fstab file of an Ubuntu 16.04.6 machine.
The NFS fails at every boot, I noticed that when the Unity Greeter comes up the network icon on the top right of the screen ...
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NFS4 client add more threads
I know how to add threads on an NFS4 server, RPCNFSDCOUNT in vim /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server. This page from Oracle says that:
Controls the number of kernel threads that perform asynchronous I/O
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Ubuntu 18.04 hangs on login screen after resume with NFS mounted prior to suspend
I use NFS share in my local home network. NFS mount is defined in /etc/fstab as following:
192.168.1.1:/media/Share /media/Share nfs noauto,rw,hard,intr,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,users 0 0
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mount.nfs: mount(2): Permission denied
I have a external harddrive mounted in /media/hdd and I want to share it with another client, specifically in the folder /mnt/archive. I want to save some files from the client into this harddrive
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How do I report an issue with nfs-kernel-server when I have a different version installed
On 10/19 I upgraded my servers to Ubuntu 17.10. I have file systems NFS exported to mostly Linux clients but also one antique SunOS 4.1.4 client. Prior to upgrade to Artful, Zesty was working file. ...
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How to create a NAS/NFS distributed over multiple machines?
I have multiple mac minis running Ubuntu. I'm building a mini cluster. Each has a medium sized drive. I was wondering if there was a way I could turn a portion of each drive into a shared NAS/NFS of ...
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Failed to restart the network driver
I have added recently a IB interface to my Ubuntu machine. My plan is to run NFS with IPoIB. I already have a bond of two gigabit interfaces, configured as round-robin (mode 0). But when I add the ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 will not connect to NFS v4 server
Our small LAN is running an NFS v4 file server. We have several clients running Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04. We have one client running Ubuntu 14.04. The 14.04 client will not connect to the file server. ...
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autofs fails with directories cross-mounted on server until root accesses them
When I try to access a directory which is cross-mounted on the nfs server, the result is an "Operation not permitted" error unless root has accessed the directory recently. If the directory is not ...
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Trying to create a NAS on Ubuntu 15.10
I am new to linux and am trying to make a NAS out of an old comnputer, I was going to use FreeNAS but my computer didnt reach the requirements. Here are the specs of my computer if anyone has ...
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Configuring NFS mount to use LDAP user id
My research group uses LDAP authentication for all the desktops. However, we've purchased a few laptops and would like to set them up so that they don't require LDAP authentication (so we can work ...
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NFS hangs on resume from suspend [after Wily update]
I updated to Wily a week ago. Previously, nfs (by autofs) mounts worked fine after suspend. Now they don't, and it's causing all apps that have open files on the network to hang and complain.
When I ...
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Folders, shares and permissions
I want to organise my home network for my family, so:
kids get their own login (probably on a Windows machine).
Kids get read/write access to their own folder.
Kids get read-only access to a folder ...
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Hostname / VPN / NFS / Kerberos
At home I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 with Kerberised NFS Shares.
The NFS clients obtain their full FDQN via DHCP.
When away from home and trying to access NFS shares via VPN, Kinit fails with:
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Stuck booting a Ubuntu 14.04 system (not from a LiveCD but from sdb1) via PXE/NFS
I have two disks (sda and sdb). I have a running Ubuntu 14.04 in sda1. I've cloned sda1 in sdb1 with Clonezilla, so in sdb1 I have too another Ubuntu system, which I want to boot only through the LAN. ...
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Why does nfs-kernel-server only pretend to stop?
Background: I had an NFS server, ran fine for years, needed to hard reboot it, and now I cannot get the daemon to stop when it's told to. Also, clients can't mount it any more, but I suspect the ...
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Sharing files and devices between 2 Linux machines
A couple of versions of Ubuntu ago, (guessing about 10.10, no later than 12.10) I used to open Nautilus, type in the local IP address of a Linux machine on my network, and it would pop open a box ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 NFS mounted shares keep losing permissions
I have a Synology NAS box on which I keep my videos. This folder is shared out using NFS.
One machine of mine, running Ubuntu 13.10 has been having problems accessing this shared folder. None of ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04: can't write to nfs share
I have installed a small home server running 12.04, now trying to configure an NFS share with Webmin version 1.620. I have gradually lowered the security on the share to basically nil, yet any write ...
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Diskless with Ubuntu 12.04
I'm trying to setup a new diskless solution with ubuntu 12.04 without any success. I followed this Diskless Ubuntu HowTo
But the initramfs seems not to be able to mount my nfs share.
On my server ...
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Doing an unattended PXE installation from a local NFS volume?
I'm trying to configure unattended Ubuntu Desktop (12.10) installations booting from PXE. I've got it working, but since I had to use the initrd.gz and kernel from the mini iso, it appears only to be ...
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Should media files (HTPC) using NFS mount using fstab/static or autofs?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with XBMC and am streaming media files from my fileserver (mounted using NFS).
Right now I have fstab configured to mount my NFS share like this:
192.168.0.99:/tank/media /...
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