[SOLVED] Can't create a NFS mount

njp

Hello,

Attempting to create a NFS mount for my music folder located on a Synology DS213+ (NFS permissions added for the IP of the PI), the error is that it can't authenticate. Not able to input the username and password for the user account on the NAS, the area is greyed out in the mount options! The fields are only available under a SMB/CIFS share only.

Am I missing something or is there an issue/bug that needs resolving?

ACX

Hi njp,
username and password inputs are greyed because there is no authentication required for NFS protocol, you just have to add your Rpi's IP address to the allowed ones in your NAS control panel.
Btw, I use a Synology DS214 and it works flawlessly. Please remember that with NFS protocol you have to put the right volume index in the path. For example to mount my "Music" folder in the NAS I have to put "volume1/Musica" in the path.

Aquarius

ACX wroteHi njp,
username and password inputs are greyed because there is no authentication required for NFS protocol, you just have to add your Rpi's IP address to the allowed ones in your NAS control panel.
Btw, I use a Synology DS214 and it works flawlessly. Please remember that with NFS protocol you have to put the right volume index in the path. For example to mount my "Music" folder in the NAS I have to put "volume1/Musica" in the path.

It depends on wether your NAS does NFS v3 or v4, doesn't it ? I'll check at home.

njp

ACX wroteHi njp,
username and password inputs are greyed because there is no authentication required for NFS protocol, you just have to add your Rpi's IP address to the allowed ones in your NAS control panel.
Btw, I use a Synology DS214 and it works flawlessly. Please remember that with NFS protocol you have to put the right volume index in the path. For example to mount my "Music" folder in the NAS I have to put "volume1/Musica" in the path.

I have added the IP to the NFS permissions of the Music folder (Read Only privilege, Squash: No Mapping, and Asynchronous enabled) and yep I'm putting the correct path in but still getting 'access denied'. I've checked the NFS options on the NAS and there's a tickbox enabling NFS v4 which is ticked. There's also a field called NFS v4 Domain, which is blank. Finally there's a tickbox for Apply default UNIX Permissions, and this is ticked. Read/Write packet sizes are both set to 8k. There are no other settings.

If I remember, when I played with Volumio before settling with RuneAudio, I was able to enter a username and password for a NFS share. I'm not really clued up on NFS v3 and v4.

njp

Okay yep I'm officially a plonker - was putting a capital letter in the path, lowercased it and now its connecting! Scholboy error, could have sworn my music folder was 'Music, but it was 'music'.

One question - after connecting I notice in the advanced settings, there's a flag there now - nfsver=3. I've got NFS v4 enabled on the NAS, can i change this to nfsver=4 to force it to run in v4 or doesn't it matter i.e. there's no benefits? There's another flag there too - "ro". What does this flag do and are there any other flags I should be adding for best performance, usability, etc.

Many thanks people.

Aquarius

njp wroteOkay yep I'm officially a plonker - was putting a capital letter in the path, lowercased it and now its connecting! Scholboy error, could have sworn my music folder was 'Music, but it was 'music'.

One question - after connecting I notice in the advanced settings, there's a flag there now - nfsver=3. I've got NFS v4 enabled on the NAS, can i change this to nfsver=4 to force it to run in v4 or doesn't it matter i.e. there's no benefits? There's another flag there too - "ro". What does this flag do and are there any other flags I should be adding for best performance, usability, etc.

Many thanks people.

"ro" means "read-only" so you probably don't need to change this.
Yes, nfsver=3 means version 3 but if you haven't changed anything here, then those settings don't apply, I think. So don't bother. I believe all modern NASes do nfs4 nowdays.

ACX

The -rw and -ro options indicate whether a file system is to be mounted read-write or read-only. The default is read-write, which is the appropriate option for remote home directories, mail-spooling directories, or other file systems that need to be changed by users. The read-only option is appropriate for directories that should not be changed by users. For example, shared copies of the man pages should not be writable by users.

As I said, I use a Synology DS214 at home and it works flawlessly with default options, so my advice is stick to them and live happy

njp

Definitely living happy right now! Left the options default under the NFS settings.

The PI is indexing the music a LOT faster via NFS share compared to SMB/CIFS. In fact it's significant. Still having to press the Remount button when switching the PI off and on. Hopefully it's something that gets sorted out in future builds, it doesn't seem to be remounting on ethernet either. Really enjoying the sound quality of the whole setup and runeaudio is a pleasure to use, it already seems really robust especially for an alpha build.

I can't really hear a difference between the sound signature profiles (ears aren't trained, don't know what I'm listening out for), but I've got it set to OrionV3 - IQaudiO. Is this fine to keep on or is one of the other profiles better?

ACX

njp wroteStill having to press the Remount button when switching the PI off and on. Hopefully it's something that gets sorted out in future builds, it doesn't seem to be remounting on ethernet either.

Are you using cable ethernet connection or wi-fi? In the first case the behaviour you described would be very odd.

njp wroteI can't really hear a difference between the sound signature profiles (ears aren't trained, don't know what I'm listening out for), but I've got it set to OrionV3 - IQaudiO. Is this fine to keep on or is one of the other profiles better?

The name is self evident, that's the suggested profile for the IQaudIO DAC

njp

ACX wrote
njp wroteStill having to press the Remount button when switching the PI off and on. Hopefully it's something that gets sorted out in future builds, it doesn't seem to be remounting on ethernet either.
Are you using cable ethernet connection or wi-fi? In the first case the behaviour you described would be very odd.

You're right, just double checked and it automounts on ethernet - must have had it on the WiFI and got confused.

Is it something that can be eventually worked around or will it always be a limitation of having WiFi as a primary connection source?

ACX

njp wroteIs it something that can be eventually worked around or will it always be a limitation of having WiFi as a primary connection source?

I suppose it's only a timing problem (the system could try to mount folders before the wi-fi connection is up), so it could be solved in the future.