I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

  • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 months ago

    How the hell do I set up my NAS (Synology) and laptop so that I have certain shares mapped when I’m on my home network - AND NOT freeze up the entire machine when I’m not???

    For years I’ve been un/commenting a couple of lines in my fstab but it’s just not okay to do it that way.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      You could simply use a graphical tool to mount it. Nautilus has it built in and I’m sure other tools have it as well.

      • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
        0·
        9 months ago

        Aha, interesting, thank you. So setting nofail and a time out of, say, 5s should work… but what then when I try to access the share, will it attempt to remount it?

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          Look up “automount”. You can tell linux to watch for access to a directory and mount it on demand.

        • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
          1·
          9 months ago

          This is also what I’d like to know, and I think the answer is no. I want to have NFS not wait indefinitely to reconnect, but when I reconnect and try going to the NFS share, have it auto-reconnect.

          edit: This seemed to work for me, without waiting indefinitely, and with automatic reconnecting, as a command (since I don’t think bg is an fstab option, only a mount command option): sudo mount -o soft,timeo=10,bg serveripaddress:/server/path /client/path/

    • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      User login script could do it. Have it compare the wireless ssid and mount the share if it matches. If you set the entry in fstab to noauto it’ll leave it alone till something says to mount it.