How to make a shared folder from Synology accessable from Ubuntu (boot persistent)

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Iḿ make progress with small steps on Ubuntu.
I thought I had everything working and could move Openhab from Synology to Ubuntu but one thing I can´t get working

I created a shared folder on the Synology. I followed the steps A Guide To Setting up NFS on Synology NAS

I can access the folder from Ubuntu after I select Networking and login with the special created user and password connected to the shared folder on the Synology.
But when I reboot Ubuntu it is not working anymore.

What did I do to get this work.

  1. sudo mkdir /nfs/backup_nuc
    The name backup_nuc is the same as I created on the Synoloy
  2. Added the line below to /etc/fstab
    192.168.100.51/volume1/backup_nuc /nfs/backup_nuc nfs auto,noatime,nfsvers=4

What I can´t find is where to add the username and password?
And also why I need to create a folder in nfs
I hope again somebody can help.

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NFS doesn’t use username password for authentication it uses the IP address of the client.

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But how can I create access on Ubuntu after a reboot?

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fstab has to be:

192.168.100.51:/volume1/backup_nuc /nfs/backup_nuc nfs default 0 0

most importantly notice the colon after the IP address

mount -a
systemctl -q daemon-reload

As Wolfgang said, you need to make sure, you add the IP address on NFS Permissions tab (step 4 of the guide you linked).

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Why do you want a shared folder set up? If it’s for backing up data from Ubuntu to Synology, wouldn’t rsync be a better option?

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Thanks.

Does this mean you map the Synology drive to a local drive in this case /nfs/backup_nuc?
If yes I assume I need to write to the local drive

echo "Backing up openhab"
file=/nfs/backup_nuc/openhab-$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H%M).tgz
cd /home/mynuc/docker/openhab4.1.1
tar cfz $file .

When I do this I get a no access error

tar (child): /nfs/backup_nuc/openhab-2024-02-13_0817.tgz: Functie open() is mislukt: Toegang geweigerd
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Yes I did this. IP address of the NUC

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Yes. This is what you tried to achieve with your first post, isn‘t it?
Let‘s start with easy tests first:
what is the output of

cd /nfs/backup_nuc
touch delete.me
ls -al

did you run these commands, too?
mount -a
systemctl -q daemon-reload

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Is in Dutch but says no access
touch: kan tijdsstempels van ‘delete.me’ niet wijzigen: Toegang geweigerd

yes I did.

ls -al
totaal 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 feb 12 16:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 feb 12 16:37 …

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with adding rights sudo chmod a+rwx . I can create a file but I don´t see that file on my synology

mynuc@mynuc-desktop:/nfs/backup_nuc$ ls -al
totaal 169680
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 feb 13 09:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 feb 12 16:37 …

echo "Backing up openhab"
file=/nfs/backup_nuc/openhab-$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H%M).tgz
cd /home/mynuc/docker/openhab4.1.1
tar cfz $file .
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I got it running the same way on my machine where I mounted a Synology shared folder.
I see just a few differences:
In NFS permission settings change Squash to none
Allow non-privileged ports

However, I habe no experience with docker. Maybe something is blocking full communication with Synology? Maybe also add both IP addresses to your Synology (in case your container has a different IP address than your NUC).

When you mount -a your folder, are there any error messages inmthe log? journalctl -r

What is your maximum nfs protocol version and did you enable Standard Unix Permissions under advanced settings on your Synology?

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Thanks for your effort.

This is on both sites not running in a docker. Only Openhab is running in a docker and files are outside the docker

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Below the response.
mount -a /nfs/backup_nuc doesn´t generate a entry

feb 13 11:24:57 mynuc-desktop polkitd[684]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:3977:49367 (system bus name :1.104, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Aut>
feb 13 11:24:56 mynuc-desktop systemd[1]: Reloading finished in 832 ms.
feb 13 11:24:56 mynuc-desktop systemd[1]: Reloading...
feb 13 11:24:56 mynuc-desktop systemd[1]: Reloading requested from client PID 3977 ('systemctl') (unit user@1000.service)...
feb 13 11:24:56 mynuc-desktop polkitd[684]: Operator of unix-session:1 successfully authenticated as unix-user:mynuc to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.freedeskto>
feb 13 11:24:48 mynuc-desktop polkitd[684]: Identity `unix-group:admin' is not valid, ignoring: No UNIX group with name admin: Success
feb 13 11:24:48 mynuc-desktop polkitd[684]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:3977:49367 (system bus name :1.104 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback]>

What very strange is that touch delete.me is still working but get errors when I run the script. This was working before.

Thanks for your support. I will try another time a different implementation.

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