Adding a NFS Server Drive to my Files for transfering files from my PC to my TrueNAS NAS

[weary parrot]

I have been struggling with this for hours now and I'm mentally spent on this. I have read many forums and such on related errors and issues. I have got my system to this stage:

fstab seems to be working, my server ip is in fstab. When I launch, my drive looks to be showing in my Files, but I can't access it. This was the same when I have this saved to my /media/username/Shows. I cannot use cd /mnt/Shows as I get permission denied, even using sudo. I have made the folder I'm trying to access Public for testing. Any help on this would be appreciated

[dim imp]

maybe make the partition you want to access and use on linux as EXT4

afterwhich take ownership.

[weary parrot]

It's a Networking Share from another device in a RAID array that is running ZFS. It's not really able to partition into EXT4.

[dim imp]

kk

do you know the precise name of the 'operating system' that runs your NAS

[weary parrot]

Dang, I thought I put that in the post, it's TrueNAS

[dim imp]

just had a thought that maybe you have to put your linux user account into some group

like network , or fileshare, or something of that nature

like i know one has to do when using virtual machines in linux

[weary parrot]

I have the drive public, so that shouldn't be a problem. I was also accessing it from SMB but that doesn't work as well with Linux apparently

[dim imp]

i'll check out some deets on TruNAS

[weary parrot]

I can see the share from my files in SMB, but just can't seem to get it through NFS, I feel like it's a user issue, but could be something else. Like the drive is mounted properly it looks like, I just can't get access to it

[dim imp]

oh,

can you open file manager, and right click the share, and do properties? permissions, and show a ss of it

[weary parrot]

well that's something, maybe it's not properly mounted then?

[dim imp]

should look kind of like that.. even if the owner is left as root

you might be able to tweak that from linux

[weary parrot]

ah, okay. So it says "You are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions", where do I go from here?

[dim imp]

go to the filesystem (/)

in nemo file manager

right click the mnt folder, and pick "open as root"

then in root nemo, review the properties of the Shows drive.

and probably you can make change

[weary parrot]

ah, well now I can open the folder, but it is not showing the contents of it...

[dim imp]

anything in it?

[weary parrot]

nothing

oh, yes

[dim imp]

right click the blank area

and do Create: new empty file

does it accomplish it?

[weary parrot]

it does, but I have no clue where...

[dim imp]

from standard file manager btw, not rootmode

[weary parrot]

yes, I did that. does the SMB share and NFS share not share the same contents maybe?

They are to the same folder on the NAS

[dim imp]

yeah perhaps only deal with one at a time

you should see in the file pane now in your Shows folder a file that is simply "new file" and looks like a text file icon.

or it may say "untitled"

[weary parrot]

yes, I did see that. I'm going to move one of my shows over to it to see if Plex can see the media, if so, I am content

still a bit odd to me that 2 shares to the same path would not show contents from each other

both Shows and Movies are running both, but can't see the contents of each other despite having the same Path

[dim imp]

different protocol maybe. the nemo file manager deals with SMB/CIFS (SAMBA as it is known on linux)

[weary parrot]

Yeah, I was having issues with saving files from applications to the SMB folders and someone recommended to go with NFS. It has been a chaotic turn of events

[dim imp]

I found this video enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3US9-IDYi8&pp=ygUnbGludXggZm9yIHNlbmlvcnMgLSBzYW1iYSBvbiBsaW51eCBtaW50

[visual kestrel]

can you double-check what your exports file reports? you need to make sure you allowed reading and writing.

[visual kestrel]

that's for samba, not nfs

[dim imp]

yep

since they've mentioned both

[weary parrot]

not sure how to tell if read/write is enabled for tha

[visual kestrel]

rw option

[weary parrot]

okay, so shoudl be good there?

[visual kestrel]

yes, should work

make sure that nfs3 service is running

[weary parrot]

interestingly, I'm not seeing my NFS session in the Sessions tab of either NFS3 or NFS4

does that mean the /mnt/Shows drive is not properly mounting?

[dim imp]

i think Lot meant check on linux

probably as some systemd service that autostarts as the computer boots up... well before any log in or desktop

[visual kestrel]

yes

you need nfs utils on both your server and client

on server systemctl status nfs-server

[weary parrot]

it appears to be running correctly, is there a command for checking on my computer side?

[visual kestrel]

now make sure to export it, on the server sudo exportfs -arv

[visual kestrel]

I'm not at my pc at the moment so I cannot check what the service is called exactly, sorry

[weary parrot]

all good, I think the export refresh is likely what needs to be done as well

I'm assuming I do "sudo systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server" now?

[visual kestrel]

just nfs-server, no?

[weary parrot]

maybe, I could be crazy, definite possibility

[dim imp]

same probably

systemctl status nfs-server <<do this on your linux computer to query

if it's on, then just reboot.

[weary parrot]

or nfs-common? I get service not found on nfs-server

[dim imp]

after that export thing Lot had u do

[dim imp]

dont turn ur linux client into a server, whatever u do

then u'll really mess up

just google it

'how to verify if nfs services are running on a linux client"

[weary parrot]

"To connect to an NFS drive on Linux, you need to install the NFS client package (like nfs-common for Ubuntu) and then use the mount command to mount the NFS share to a local directory"

[weary parrot]

so likely nfs-common is the service to check and my was giving this response, which is showing inactive

[dim imp]

yes. could be because samba is running, but idk if it's the real cause

nfs-common : masked

[dim imp]

unmount the samba share via right click in the devices area in the file manager

[weary parrot]

it's currently unmounted

[dim imp]

cat /proc/mounts

[weary parrot]

I just now disabled the SMB share for it as well to avoid that possible issue

can reenable later if needed

[dim imp]

or this for more narrowed:
cat /proc/mounts | grep "/dev"

[weary parrot]

yoshi@TheIsland:~$ cat /proc/mounts | grep "/dev"
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=16337612k,nr_inodes=4084403,mode=755,inode64 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
/dev/nvme0n1p2 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,pagesize=2M 0 0
/dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0

i don't believe any of those are the smb share, but I also haven't seen one in there to be able to tell

it looks like the same output either was

[dim imp]

correct. so it truly is unmounted. that's fine

[visual kestrel]

follow this
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3773891

[weary parrot]

That just says to include the "insecure" option, which is already present on mine:
"/mnt/HDDs/Shows"
*(sec=sys,rw,insecure,no_subtree_check)

[visual kestrel]

try no_root_squash option also, perhaps.

[weary parrot]

it didn't error on my end this time after doing a exportfs -rav on the server, but can't access the folder

can as root though and all shows up there

[visual kestrel]

I have no idea

[weary parrot]

lol, i feel that, it may be because I ran the mount command as sudo, will see if I can unmount and remount

odd...

i'll try a restart and see if the fstab works as it should

permissions are not making sense at all to me, but my original issue is resolved as I am not getting the mount working properly

there just always seems to be a bigger fish

[dim imp]

maybe just forget NFS. review the vid i sent for SAMBA tips and use it that way

that or u didn't put the syntax into fstab correctly

usually drives start with:
UUID=

or when Disks app does it, it's /dev/by-uuid/something something

[dim imp]

The correct fstab syntax for a CIFS (Samba) network share is:
//ServerName/ShareName /path/to/mountpoint cifs credentials=/path/to/creds,_netdev,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775 0 0. Key components include the //server/share network path, the local mount point, the cifs type, the credentials file location, and options like _netdev to ensure network availability, uid/gid for permissions, and file_mode/dir_mode for file/directory permissions

[weary parrot]

I'll watch that video and check

[dim imp]

contrast the above to yours

uid and gid mean the user and group id on on linux. 1000 is always the logged-in main user

sample line:
//192.168.1.100/Data /mnt/nas cifs credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials,_netdev,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775 0 0

notice yours has a colon after the internal IP address of the sharepoint

this example is for samba, obv. noting the Filesystem type column in the fstab line here is cifs

pictorially, for better illustration:

[weary parrot]

SAMBA will not work with the application I am using. That's the reason I started messing with NFS in the first place. Currently, I can access everything with root, but cannot as my user account.