My Cloud

[Nathan Collins]

That looks good to me John.

The next time you want to mount the drive you will only need to change
directory to your home directory and then run the last two commands, maybe
only even the last one if you know the IP address isn't going to change.

If you are ever unsure what a command is going to do you can use the 'man'
command followed by the name of the command you are unsure about, for
example: man mount. This will show you the manual/documentation for this
command. The man pages are also available online, for example the man page
for the NFS mount options is:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/en/man5/nfs.5.html.

Having a look at that page suggests to me that you might just want to run:
sudo mount 192.168.1.132:/nfs /home/

The arguments after the -o and before the ip address are all options that
you can probably discard. The 'soft' option might cause data corruption,
and 'hard' is normally used by default. The 'intr' option has been
depreciated. The best 'rsize' and 'wsize' options are automatically
negotiated if they are not set, so there is little point in trying to guess
what the best options are when it can figure it out it's self.

Finally, you might want to look into disabling HTML formatting on your
e-mails to this list. It looks like it's scrubbing it out which is why your
e-mails are looking funny. There might be a 'plaintext' option that you can
enable instead.

All the best on your linux adventures!
Nathan

On 29 March 2016 at 12:01, JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi Nathan,                  at the risk of being a nuisance, does this
> solve my problem, though I have no idea what it means or how to go about
> it, I need to hand it to somebody to do the necessary.
> But it was easy enoughto connect my Lubuntu laptop as a Network File
> System (NFS) Clientvia three shell commands.First, I changed directory to
> my home directory and created a nfsdirectory in there:
> $ cd $HOME
> $ mkdir nfsThen I applied the following three shell commands:
> $ sudoapt-get install nfs-common
> $ showmount -e
> $ sudo mount -osoft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.1.132:/nfs
> /home/If you cd into nfs you’ll be accessing the WD My Cloud device.That’s
> it. I started to copy twenty mp4 files totalling 1.6GB intothe device
> through 802.11g and it took 8 minutes. I was thenstreaming these on my iPad
> mini.I hope this helps assure you you can connect to this from Linux. Iknow
> once I finished the plug and play I panicked for a bit thinkingI wouldn’t
> be able to connect my Linux machines to this device butnow I happily throw
> everything I have onto this. Also, it has a USB 3port on the back so I can
> simply plug another 4TB USB drive on it andexpand it in the future.John.
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