EDIT: I’m rephrasing some sentences Edit2: I gave up.

I just installed Fedora and to my surprise I can’t use my NAS.

Through a SMB share I can see everything easily enough through GUI but I can’t open any file, then I tried NFS.

With NFS I followed many tutorials to mount the shared folders, each one slightly different than the previous one, some told me to mount at /var/folder some told me to mount at /mnt/folder. I don’t understand the difference. Anyway, now I know how to mount and how to put it in fstab so everything gets mounted on boot, not ideal but I can live with that.

What every single tutorial fails to say is that I can only access those shares as administrator and every time I want to open any file I have to type my password.

What I am missing here?

This tutorial is the one I finally followed

Here I noticed the the commenter added some options

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    1 month ago

    I’m already putting Mint in a usb stick, I’ve been at it the entire day and every minute has been an uphill battle.

    Every time something new worked, it did half way and needed a work around. Last one, after managing to get samba working properly, was that video players refused to play anything, the solution was a workaround from 4 years ago, to delete some parameters in the launcher. Next problem was the codecs you can’t install from the software centre.

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      1 month ago

      That sounds like a huge pain.

      Yeah I started my Linux adventures on Ubuntu but got frustrated and restarted on Mint. I’ve been setting up some home servers on old laptops I acquired for free.

      I’ve been enjoying Mint enough that I switched over my MacBook, but my desktop is still on MacOS til I figure out a couple more things.

      I will say that SyncThing is absolutely fantastic for syncing files between devices, but not useful if you only want them in one spot.