Subj : NFS.. again.
To   : All
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Aug 15 2021 20:26:18

Gosh, guys.

I figured out my permissions a bit more. The NAS NFS *is working, and serving 
files to users thru the BBS box. I didn't have the owner set to root, and when 
I did that, other users were given their correct accesses - I don't wanna get 
into that deeply; I KNOW I need to learn a lot more about permissions. Its 
really confusing.

Ok... so now I have the NFS working, and need to make sure the two drives are 
always mounted @ /mnt/Backup6TB /mnt/Backup4TB... Ok... so I have a 
mountroms.sh that works fine... The directories are already there, when I run 
mountroms.sh they populate. I could create a Mystic event that runs that every 
hour; who cares about the extra commands when its already mounted... Eh. Thats 
kinda ugly...

So, I edited my /etc/fstab and put in:
10.0.0.131:/export/Backup4TB  /mnt/Backup4TB  nfs  defaults  0  0
10.0.0.131:/export/Backup6TB  /mnt/Backup6TB  nfs  defaults  0  0

Reboot; mount points aren't populated. I read that nfs's don't LOVE the fstab 
because their network drives and don't connect fast enough. Remember, My NAS 
[for NOW, anyway. :P] is on a Pi... so its the most sucky one you could have.

Anyway, I learn of autofs... install autofs, modify auto.master to include:
/- /etc/auto.Backup4TB -nosuid,noowners
/- /etc/auto.Backup6TB -nosuid,noowners

and edit /etc/auto.Backup4TB/6TB like this:
/mnt/Backup4TB -fstyle=nfs,user,nolock,nosuid,rw 10.0.0.x:/export/Backup4TB

..... and restart autofs....

Now the /mnt/Backup4TB / other say 'filesystem isn't there'.../error out.

So... question; how would you make sure this NFS is mounted for the BBS box 
always? I can just run a mountroms.sh - but think that sucks.... I wish fstab 
just worked, and am ok with autofs as a solution, IF it worked - am I 
forgetting some THINGS that I should look at .... with either fstab OR autofs?

Thanks guys... I *did* get the permissions ironed out - just wish I understood 
more about why. :/ 

And I'm about to get some actual server hardware-  feeling like I'm not ready 
to be that sysOp... :/ 

Thanks for any help at all.



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