My Cloud

[John Couzin]

Again, thanks for your time and support. John.

> On 29 Mar 2016, at 12:44, Nathan Collins <mr.nathan.collins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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