Hi all,

I recently decided to make the switch from Windows to Ubuntu (Pop_OS) and I’m struggling to setup my NAS on my new OS.

I can mount my folders without issues and access them on different file managers (Nemo, Dolphin), but I’m having issues accessing them from my installed applications.

For example if I want to modify tags for my audio files (which takes 80% on my Synology drives) I cannot find them in the application(s).

I can’t right click on the files and use ‘open with’ and I cannot drag n’ drop the files to the tag editor, so I try to find the with the applications:

  • Ex Falso:  no network share is available on the sidebar / navigation bar, nothing in ‘other locations’
  • Puddletag: same
  • NTag : same

How are we supposed to make this work? I just want to be able to access my files without having to download them on my local disk and send them back to my Synology every time I want to do this.

  • @theit8514English
    6•10 months ago

    Since you’ve probably been using the SMB protocol to access the NAS you probably need to understand a few things about the NFS protocol which functions differently. The NFS mount acts like a mapping of the entire system, rather than a specific user. That means that if there are differences in the systems, you may get access errors. For example the default user in Synology has a uid of 1024, but most client systems have a default of 1000. This means your user may not have access to the share or files, even if you have it mounted on the client.

    One thing to check is what your Shared Folder’s NFS permissions squash is set to. This is found in Control Panel > Shared Folder the the NFS permissions tab. If it’s set to “no mapping” then uids must match. The easiest setup is to “map all users to admin” but you may encounter issues with that later if you switch back to SMB since new files will be owned by admin.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•10 months ago

      Thanks for your help! I did setup my NAS share as NFS capable, and I mapped the users as admin. Using the command mentioned in my other comment I could mount the share successfully and find it in several applications. Cheers!