Sorry, noob here. I have been using Linux for a decade at least, but some basic stuff still stump me. Today, it’s file sharing: The idea is that the server is good at CPU and the NAS is good at storage. My NAS does run Docker but the services are slow; and my server runs a bunch of Docker containers just fine but has limited disk space (SSD).
Want:
- Share a directory on my NAS, so that my homelab server can use it.
- Security is not important; the share does not need to be locked down.
Have:
- Server+NAS are on their own little 1Gb Cisco switch, so network latency should be minimal.
- Linux NAS and Linux server have separate users/UID/GID.
Whatever I try, it always ends up with errors about ‘access denied’ or read-only or something. I conclude that I am not smart enough to figure it out.
Help?
Details… what do your exports file look like. What do your fstab entry look like, what error do you get when you try ro mount it?
Normaly on nfs you define the directories to share in the /etc/exports file with what ip prefix are allowed to mount, and some flags for features. Your nas may hide this behind a web interface.
Have you shared a path to the prefix your server is on?
The server mount the path normaly with a fstab entry.