Its quite easy to setup Ubuntu (11.04) as an NFS client - this will allow you to mount the NAS on your local filesystem and it will appear just like any other directory.
First step is to install the nfs-common package:
sudo apt-get install nfs-common
You can now mount NFS volumes!
To do so temporarily, can use this command:
sudo mount.nfs <IPADDRESS>:<REMOTEPATH> <MOUNTPOINT>
The mount point needs to exist prior to mounting.
For example, my nas would be mounted as follows:
sudo mkdir /mnt/nas
sudo mount.nfs 192.168.1.10:/nfs/Public /mnt/nas
To make this permanent, you would need to add the following line to /etc/fstab:
192.168.1.10:/nfs/Public /mnt/NAS nfs defaults 0 0
As a bonus, this also allows you to use the mount and umount commands by just specifying the mount point as these commands will query the /etc/fstab file.
For example, once your /etc/fstab file is up to date, these commands will work without specifying the remote host and path:
sudo umount /mnt/nassudo mount /mnt/nas
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