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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr - The thing that thousands thought to try
 
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Mode 7 Samurai
Jan 9, 2001

 Can anyone help me with running a terminal command on system startup?

I want to make it so when the system boots the following command is run: mount -o soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 192.168.1.130:/nfs /home/nfs/ which mounts my external NAS to a folder in my hold directory. I have tried a few different methods I found via google, I made a script and added it to the /etc/init.d folder, added it to the rc.local file, added the script to the startup tool in MATE, none of them have worked so far.

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Mode 7 Samurai
Jan 9, 2001

 I was following through a guide using fstab but in the following line

code:
//servername/sharename  /media/windowsshare  cifs  guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8  0  0
I am not sure what to put in the //servername/sharename part. My NAS is a WD My Cloud and when I look in the network it is listed just as WDMYCLOUD, but when I try that as the servername it doesnt work. I also tried using the IP address but that doesnt seem to want to work either.

Edit: To clarify when I try the above method it returns the following:

code:
bash: //WDMYCLOUD/Public: No such file or directory

Mode 7 Samurai fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Feb 27, 2016

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Mode 7 Samurai
Jan 9, 2001

SurgicalOntologist posted:

Going off your command line version, try //192.168.1.130/Public or //192.168.1.130/nfs.

Both return "no such file or directory"

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Mode 7 Samurai
Jan 9, 2001

 I am apparently bad at linux, I cant seem to get this to work. I am new to Linux so its all partially stuff I sort of understand and a bunch of stuff I dont, haha

Mode 7 Samurai fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Feb 28, 2016

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Mode 7 Samurai
Jan 9, 2001

Thalagyrt posted:

Open up /etc/fstab in an editor with sudo, and pop a line in for the path you want to mount.

//ip/share /local/mount/point cifs rw,username=username,password=password 0 0

You need to make sure the local mount point exists - so if you use /data for example, make that data directory: sudo mkdir /data

Once that's done, you should be able to mount /data, and you're good to go.

Yeah I think I got the hang of it. I was thinking it worked a different way but after stepping away for a bit and coming back to it I think its working now

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