Have NAS connect at boot via fstab

[altair4]

Is there any way to put that launcher thing into fstab?

No.

CIFS in fstab is to mount a servers share. You cannot mount an entire server - only one of its shares. If you have 5 shares you need 5 lines in fstab.

When you run your launcher it is not mounting all those shares it's simply displaying all the shares available for you to mount.

WHat I do not understand is why when you connect to one of those shares and enter the user name and password and select Remember Forever it doesn't work.

All of those saved passwords should show up in seahorse which would make connecting to one of those shares in the future seamless.

[muffybean]

WHat I do not understand is why when you connect to one of those shares and enter the user name and password and select Remember Forever it doesn't work.

Yes altair when I initially started to do this, opening calypso in network.

The first one is afp://calypso.local/, 2 is smb://calypso.local/ and 3 is ftp://calypso.local/ Despite checking remember forever, 1 and 2 did not do this. 2 has started since I have done this fstab thing. I actually created a post viewtopic.php?f=90&t=304136 in which you responded. Looking at it again I have installed seahorse. BTW, the Synology settings link you pointed to me in the post are actually set.

Just opened Seahorse and see that all three protocols are now stored in there with username and passwords!

[muffybean]

I am now happy with the setup and have customised my desktop.

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Now 1 labelled Synology is the fstab link that mounts my calypso.local/data folder and 2 is the launcher that opens caja smb://calypso.local showing all my folders in my NAS. As you can see I have customised the icons. However, I would like to rename the fstab one from Synology to Synology-Data This would make it clear as to which one I want to use. Is this possible?

[AndyMH]

Right click on the icon and select rename.

Where did you get the icon you are using for calypso?

[muffybean]

Right click on the icon and select rename.

Where did you get the icon you are using for calypso?

I tried right clicking the synology one that is generated by the line in the fstab file but the rename bit is greyed out. Can rename calypso but I am happy with that.

As for the icon I have attached two I got here.

[AndyMH]

Second one is better - transparent background

[altair4]

I would like to rename the fstab one from Synology to Synology-Data This would make it clear as to which one I want to use. Is this possible?

For an fstab mount to something under /media the resulting desktop icon label is the same as the name of the mount point folder. If you want the label to be synology-data then you have to create a mount point with that name:

Unmont the share:

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sudo umount /media/synology

Create the new mount point:

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sudo mkdir /media/synology-data

Edit /etc/fstab and change the mount point from /media/synology to /media/synology-data so that it looks like this:

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//calypso.local/Data/	/media/synology-data	cifs	credentials=/etc/samba/credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000	0	0

Then do the systemd 2-step:

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sudo systemctl daemon-reload

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sudo systemctl restart remote-fs.target

[muffybean]

Thanks altair that worked fine. I now have an empty Synology folder in media now, is it ok to delete that?

[altair4]

Yes. But please make sure it is empty before you delete it.

[muffybean]

Yes. But please make sure it is empty before you delete it.

It was the first thing I checked. Thanks kindly your advice and thank you to Andy.

[AndyMH]

You might prefer this one:

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I've stripped out the background and resized to 96x96 and saved as a png. Better as a desktop icon.

[muffybean]

You might prefer this one:
Synology.png
I've stripped out the background and resized to 96x96 and saved as a png. Better as a desktop icon.

Yes that is a lot better. Thanks for the upload.