Hi there,
Thanx for your input so far. Perhaps I didn't express clearly what I meant.
Most brands of NAS's come with support software to connect to your pc through the network: e.g. in Windows: get access to the shares on the NAS with a drive letter (For those who don't know Windows: it works with drive letters with a letter for every drive, e.g. C: for the main drive, in many cases D: for the DVD, etc.) and this app would add drive letters in Windows for each share.
A number of NAS brands (among which Qnap) have lots of apps like that to integrate in a Windows or Mac environment, but limited support or none for Linux. I would like to integrate my NAS shares with NFS, so I have direct access to the shares from my pc's (not through a browser) by adding lines like this in my /etc/fstab, e.g.:
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192.168.178.31:/Backup /home/thomsterdam/NAS/Backup nfs _netdev,auto 0 0
This is not so difficult to do. But e.g. setting up automatic weekly back up to the NAS etc is usually done with software provided by the NAS manufacturer. I don't want to go and configure this myself with regular RSync, but with a simple back up app from the NAS maker.
So, which NAS's have good support in this sense for Linux? Lots of Linux apps from the NAS manufacturer which make integration in my network and on my pc's super simple?
Thanx,
Thomsterdam