Mint Linux 19.3
Recently, I converted an older Windows 10 workstation that had become crippled under the weight of the OS to Mint Linux 19.3. Installing the OS was pretty straightward:
- Download 64bit Mint Linux OS installer to a bootable USB stick
- Rebooted the computer and set USB stick as a bootable option
- Rebooted and followed steps in the installer.
- Rebooted again w/o usb stick and I'm running Linux. Now what?
Downloaded and installed Plex Media Server.
Had to mount NAS file shares so Plex server access them.
This was abit tricky.
- Had to edit /etc/fstab file. Must do this as admin or root
- Open command prompt: sudo xed /etc/fstab
- This command opens XED text editor in root mode to allow file to edited.
After much research, I found this command allow my Zyxel NAS 326 video share to be mapped to the workstation.
NOTE: I used this pattern:
Created a local folder /home/gary/Shares/FileShare (in linux)
Mapped //192.168.0.31/public => /home/gary/Shares/FileShar
//192.168.0.31/public
username={{username}},password={{password}},iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0
//NAS326-10TB.local/video /home/garykindel/Media/video cifs credentials=/home/garykindel/Media/plex.cred,guest,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,x-systemd.automount,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0
//NAS326-10TB.local/video = UNC path of NAS share
home/garykindel/Media/video - location where share will be mounted to.
cifs - protocal to access share
credentials=/home/garykindel/Media/plex.cred - points to text file comtaining username=? and password=?
Rest of the parameters found by trial and error needed. Lines ends in a
0
IMPORTANT NO OTHER SPACES IN LINE IS ALLOWABLE!
Again in the command prompt, to load allow configured shares:
cmd:> sudo mount -all
