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Mount NFS share as a shortcut

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I recently purchased a Netgear ReadyNas and have a question about mounting an NFS volume. Firstly I know how to mount the share in fstab. There is a lot of information around that describes how to do that. I really don't want to do that.

What I want to do is have a shortcut or launcher that I can execute which will mount the nfs share for me (for example mounting it to ~/music). When I plug in a usb drive xubuntu automatically puts a drive icon shortcut on my desktop and allows me to 'eject'. Is this possible? Does it make sense?

I am using xubuntu 11.10.

I have been doing research to solve this problem and I have come up with two possibilities:

1) Create a shell script or

2) AutoFS.

I am not sure which is better. I am more comfortable with shell scripting than AutoFS. The problem with the shell scripting is that I'll need sudo permissions. What I have read about AutoFS it might be the best solution. Is there a way to setup AutoFS so that I can keep the configuration files within the users home folder?

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answered 2 Years ago fulpu · Accepted Answer

I'm using Autofs for my NFS network, see this answer.

Note that :

autofs is a program for automatically mounting directories on an as-needed basis. Auto-mounts are mounted only as they are accessed, and are unmounted after a period of inactivity. Because of this, automounting NFS/Samba shares conserves bandwidth and offers better overall performance compared to static mounts via fstab.

I've used an admin account to configure it, and I use it every day with a normal account.

1st you need to setup your Netgear ReadyNas to act like a server. ( I can not describe this part).

Then I suppose you can setup Autofs like this:

install Autofs
```
$ sudo apt-get install autofs
```

create the folder used to mount the connection with your Netgear ReadyNas
```
$ sudo mkdir /media/shareFolder
```

set autofs to automatically mount this folder,

in /etc/auto.master add this line:
```
/media/shareFolder /etc/auto.nfs --ghost, --timeout=60
```
in /etc/auto.nfs add this line
```
Netgear -fstype=nfs,rw,intr,uid=1001,guid=1001   192.168.1.?:/home/something
```
with:

192.168.1.? is the address of your Netgear ReadyNas

/home/something is the folder shared on your Netgear ReadyNas

1001 is the normal user (without admin privilege) and group ID. To find it $ id {your normal logon}

Result should be that your /home/something from your Netgear ReadyNas is mounted in /media/shareFolder/Netgear