Mount Synology NFS shared drive in Linux

How to create a NFS share on a Synology NAS and mount it on a linux client machine using the guest account for all users.

Synology NAS steps

1. Enable NFS in control panel > file services
2. Create share in Control Panel > Shared Folder e.g, public
   
3. Set NFS Permissions
•     Hostname * (allow all hosts to connect)
•     Privilege Read/Write
•     Squash map all users to guest
  
•     security sys
•     Enable asynchronus
•     Allow connections from non-privileged ports
4. Enable the guest user account and ensure it has r/w access to the share

 

Linux client steps

 Install the nfs client if not already installed

1.  sudo apt update
2. sudo apt install nfs-common 

 Create a mount point directory

1. mkdir /mnt/public

Mount the drive. NB use the share path as shown in the control panel e.g. /volume1/public

1. sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.76.38:/volume1/public /mnt/public