What are some best practices in mounting NAS shares that you all follow?
Currently I am mounting using fstab to my user’s home directory with full rwx permissions, but that feels wrong.
I’ve read to use the mnt directory or the media directory but opinions differ.
My main concern is I want to protect against inadvertently deleting the contents of the NAS with an errant rm command. And yes I have backups of my NAS too.
Edit: this is a home NAS with 1 user on this Linux PC (the other clients being windows and Mac systems)
Would love to hear everyone’s philosophy! Thanks!
How many users are there?
Is there a chance that the computer will boot without access to the NAS (aside from failure conditions).
Are you doing anything with ownership to prevent reading, or changing, sensitive files?
This is a home NAS with one user (myself) on this Linux client. Other clients will be Windows for other users.
My NAS user has full rw permissions across the NAS shares (but not admin privs). I’m not super comfortable with this config as it strike me as too permissive to mount on the home directory. Would love to hear better approaches.
Yes, there is a chance the NAS can be down when booting the Linux pc.
Well, with multiple users you'd need to decide what the use case is for the whole NAS and then work down from there.
Are you sharing everything in the NAS with everyone? In that case your NAS setup is fine, just a little permissive, because with RW to everything, the end users can break everything.
If it were me setting this up, I'd have different mount points for different users. 1 mount for each user that only they can read/write (not even you should be able to see it), and 1 mount that everyone can read/write, maybe if you want to go a little bonkers, 1 mount that everyone can read, but only you can write to.
Then you'd mount those three to separate mounts in your /media, and you can link them from your home directory for specific use cases.
Obviously this is completely overkill, but you can take the parts that sound appealing to you and ignore the rest.
There aren't many options... you can either modify the share or you cannot. 🙂 Pick one.
I set up the mount points in configuration as dynamic NFS volumes and added Bookmarks to nautilus. You can get to the volume either with cd command or right-click -> terminal here. You can shut down the NAS and only lose the share, which returns when the system goes online.
This is much better than WbDAV, which is fine for simple sharing or for devices that can't handle NFS easily like Android phones.