How do I mount my NAS?

Question

I just got a Raspberry Pi 3 and I am currently trying to mount my WD MyCloud EX2 to it and I am not having any luck.

I tried following this guide I found here

But I got this error: unable to find suitable address.

I attempted to edit the /etc/fstab file to this

192.168.1.119/WDMyCloudEX2/PiDownloads /home/ddrossi93/myNAS/myShare nfs 
workgroup=WORKGROUP,users,auto,user_xattr 0 0,username=admin,password=pw

and I now get the error: remote share not in 'host:dir' format.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong and could use some guidance.

EDIT: I got it to work, I had to turn on NFS access on my NAS

Answer 1

You should have // before 192.168.1.119. fs_mntops should be before fs_freq.

//192.168.1.119/WDMyCloudEX2/PiDownloads /home/ddrossi93/myNAS/myShare nfs workgroup=WORKGROUP,users,auto,user_xattr,username=admin,password=pw 0 0

Refer to the man page for fstab (5) for what fs_mntops and fs_freq are.

Answer 2

After doing what I listed in the description, I then found an option in the settings of the WD myCloud NAS to turn on NFS access. Once this was enabled, it mounted without any errors or issues.

Answer 3

You are right deciding to do it using fstab. I own a raspberry pi 1 and the same NAS as you. This is my fstab file content (for each network drive write a line):

//192.168.1.15/afolder /media/MyNAS/afolder cifs uid=myuser,credentials=/home/myuser/.MyNAS-credentials 0 0

As you can see, I store credentials in a separate file (/home/myuser/.MyNAS-credentials), which contains the following:

username=username
password=passwd
domain=WORKGROUP

Hope it helps!!