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madpet

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Registered: 2018-06-21

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Mounting remote Synology DS216j NAS as folder on Arch?

Hi,

At home, I have a Synology DS216j with my music (on a Plex Media Server) that I can easily mount as a remote device (though SMB) on my home iMac.

Now, I'm wondering if I can mount it at my office Arch machine in the same way, so I can easily move files to and from it like it was any other folder? It seems to support both NFS and Samba, but I'm unsure of how to set it up

V1del

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Re: Mounting remote Synology DS216j NAS as folder on Arch?

If you are already using SMB on Mac then it's less of a setup to also use SMB (on the slight chance that that is the point of contention, SMB = Samba = CIFS, they all refer to the same protocol, terminology differences are mostly historical ) on Arch.

That said the question as it stands is very open ended and not easily answerable, go for one of the approaches come back if you have specific issues or questions.

Last edited by V1del (2018-08-22 14:14:50)

madpet

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Re: Mounting remote Synology DS216j NAS as folder on Arch?

I've tried getting Samba to work following this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/samba#Client
Downloaded smbclient and tried to do

smbclient -L hostname -U%

, with the IP address of my Synology as hostname, but I just get an error saying "Connection to x.x.x.x failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)" :S

madpet

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Re: Mounting remote Synology DS216j NAS as folder on Arch?

Anyone? I still have this problem, and can't really find anything about it on Google.