I’ve got an NAS file server on my local network, in my windows days I just mapped a drive to it and it was just there all the time. I’m having trouble doing the same in Ubuntu. I had done this successfully before using samba-cifs in fstab, but after reconfiguring the box that no longer works and it felt silly since the box itself runs Linux (Busybox I believe).
So at first I tried sshfs.
I can access it from the Places -> Connect to Server using ssh, and it’ll pull up in Nautilus.
I can also mount it via commandline:sshfs -o idmap=user $USER@<localip>:/mnt/HD_a2 /media/nas-files
and it works fine; however, it asks for a password so I can’t add that in rc.local to mount on login.
I’ve tried editing fstab, unsuccessfully, using this command:sshfs#shazzner@<localip>:/mnt/HD_a2/files /media/nas-files/ fuse user 0 0for some reason this turns the nas-files folder in a binary file, that appears to be garbage. When I unmount it, it comes back fine. No idea.
Second, someone in the chat mentioned, Autofs.
I edited auto.master with:/media/auto /etc/auto.mediaand in auto.media:
nfiles -fstype=fuse,rw,noperm,allow_other,reconnect sshfs\#//<localip>/mnt/HD_a2/filesthen restarted autofs, it gives me no error message but the mount isn’t there.
Pulling my hair out with this one, any help?
Answer
You can try to do a
sudo su
ssh-copy-id username@nas
to enable certificate based auto login for the user root.
Now the user root should be able to login to the server viva ssh without a password and i think sshfs now also does not need a password.
So you have to write a little script executing sshfs and start the script on startup (checkout the update-rc.d command)
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