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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

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  • Seeing as you found the solution could you please make it an answer and mark it as correct.
    – Darth Vader ♦
    Jan 30, 2017 at 8:47
  • I've just resolved a similar issue, so in the hope that it's helpful for future visitors, a note (since the formatting on neither of the question or the answers makes this clear): The columns of /etc/fstab entries must be separated by TABs, not spaces.
    – zyndor
    May 23, 2020 at 10:20

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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.

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  • Hi there, thanks for the response. I am not sure what you mean by fs_mntops and fs_freq
    – ddrossi93
    Apr 22, 2016 at 23:03
  • nevermind I got it to work. I had to turn on NFS Access on my NAS. Thanks!
    – ddrossi93
    Apr 22, 2016 at 23:34
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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.

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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!!

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  • Hello, thanks for the response. I am still having some trouble. I am getting a parse error on the same line for the code I am posting. I am also getting this error as well, "mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified"
    – ddrossi93
    Apr 22, 2016 at 23:05
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    nevermind I got it to work. I had to turn on NFS Access on my NAS. Thanks!
    – ddrossi93
    Apr 22, 2016 at 23:34
  • @Ddrossi93 could you thumbs up my answer and mark it as a correct answer, please?
    – russellhoff
    Jan 12, 2018 at 8:02

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