Asynchronous: Checking this option allows your Synology NAS to reply to requests from NFS clients before any changes to files are completed, yielding better performance.Map all users to admin: Assigns access privileges to all users of NFS client equivalent to the admin user access privileges on your system.Map root to guest: Assigns access privileges to root users of NFS client equivalent to the guest access privileges on your system.Map root to admin: Assigns access privileges to root users of NFS client equivalent to the admin user access privileges on your system.No mapping: Allows all users of NFS client, including root users, to maintain original access privileges.Squash: This field allows you to control users' access privileges of the NFS client.Kerberos privacy: Perform Kerberos authentication and encrypt the NFS packets during data transfer, thus preventing malicious parties from tampering with NFS traffic.
Security: Specify the security flavor to implement.Privilege: Select read/write permissions for the NFS client.Single Host: The fully qualified domain name (FQDN), or an IP address.Hostname or IP: Enter the IP address of the NFS client which will access the shared folder.Allow users to access mounted sub folders: checked.Squash: Map all users to admin, this gives the least resistance for permission issues, but if you need more security, you can do none, or what you need.Privilege: read/write (for plex, Read only might be safer).Click Create.įor me and home labing, this is what I usually do above. Select the shared folder that you wish to access with your NFS client, and click Edit. On the Win/Mac/NFS tab, tick the box Enable NFS. You must have root/sudo permission on the Linux box you are working on.Shares on Synology cannot have mounted folders inside them.Shares on Synology cannot be encrypted that have NFS permissions.The post will be long, but once you do it once or twice, you can do in about two minutes. I typed a quick how-to on mounting nfs shares from Synology to Linux as it seems to be a common question.