So you are done configuring your Synology NAS and want to be able to access your Synology NAS through your Ubuntu PC or laptop? With Linux you can mount your NAS to your Ubuntu distro. Always wondered how? This tutorial helps you find your way to do.

First of all you need to login into DSM of your Synology. Once you are logged into DSM go to 'Configuration' and then open 'Win/Mac/NFS'. In this window click on tab 'NFS-service'. Make sure you enabled the NFS-service and save it. Then go back to the main configuration screen and open the option 'Shared folder'. You will see all of your shared folders in here. Select a folder you want to access from your Ubuntu and click on the button 'NFS-rights'. This will open up a screen and click on the button 'Create'. Enter the next values:

Hostname or IP: 192.168.1.0/24 (This should be your internal IP range)
Rights: Read/Write
Root squash: No
Enable Asynchroon

Repeat this for every folder you want to share to your Ubuntu distro. For example I have done this for the shared folders 'photo', 'music' and 'video'. After you finished this for all folders, we are done with DSM. You can close this now.

No we have to mount these shares to Ubuntu. So please log into your Ubuntu and open a terminal window. In this terminal type the following to be sure that this package is installed:

[you@ubuntu ~]$ sudo apt-get install nfs-common

Once the package is installed or you verified that the package is already installed, we need to edit the file /etc/fstab. Open this file as follows:

[you@ubuntu ~]$ sudo vi /etc/fstab

At the end of this file add the following:

IPADDRESS-OF-YOUR-NAS:/volume1/photo /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME/photo nfs nouser,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
IPADDRESS-OF-YOUR-NAS:/volume1/music /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME/music nfs nouser,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
IPADDRESS-OF-YOUR-NAS:/volume1/video /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME/video nfs nouser,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

Ofcourse you need to replace IPADDRESS-OF-YOUR-NAS with the actual IP address. And please choose a name for the folder to mount to at CHOOSE-NAME. This choosen name you should write down or remember. This because we need to create the folders you are mounting to. You can creating them by executing next command:

sudo mkdir /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME/photo /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME/video /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME/music

Everything has now been setup to work. For just this once you need to activate the mount manually as follows:

sudo mount -a

If you would restart your Ubuntu now, the next time it starts it will automatically add the created mounts again. So no need to do all of the above again! From this point you are finished creating the mount. Some user however find it easy to have a shortcut on there desktop to the NAS. You can create a shortcut to your mounted NAS as follows:

sudo ln -s /mnt/CHOOSE-NAME /home/user/Desktop/CHOOSE-NAME