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Mount Synology NFSv4 export with id mapping

I have a Synology DiskStation (DSM 6.0.2) that exports shared directories via NFSv4. I specified a NFSv4 domain ITET-PHO. On another Linux machine (Debian Wheezy), I want to mount this export using ...
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faster way to mount a remote file system than sshfs?

I have been using sshfs to work remotely, but it is really slow and annoying, particularly when I use eclipse on it. Is there any faster way to mount the remote file system locally? My no.1 priority ...
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Copy remote files on nfs without round-trip

I have a large amout of data (several GB) on a remote drive, that is transparently mounted via nfs. I'd like to copy these files into a subdirectory of where they are already residing, so everything ...
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NFS: Network disconnect causes Gnome Nautilus to hang / Jumping progress bars

I mount NFSv4 export via /etc/fstab and mount and use the shared folder in nautilus. There are two issues: When I copy a large file (around 4 GB) to the NFS server, the progress bar rapidly goes to ...
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Millions of files in a single directory

I need a file storage solution that will provide read/write for files to a collection of web servers. The space demands are modest -- about 2 TiB right now but will probably grow to twice that. NFS ...
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NFS /usr/share breaks Policykit beause of inotify support

I just tried moving some files including /usr/share to a NFS partition to save space when running many similar virtual machines. The configuration mostly works except when starting services I think ...
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NFS Permission Denied when mounting from WSL

I'm trying to mount a NFS folder in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 sudo mount singularity:/srv/Storage /mnt/storage -v But it gives me an error mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting singularity:/srv/...
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How to setup nfs share for users with write permissions

We used ubuntu linux on desktops with ldap authentication. Both on server and clients we have identical users and groups. I've setup nfs server with public share, which should be available for all ...
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Undeletable file in RedHat Linux

There is a file under my home area that I cannot delete. When I do an ls -al on the directory, the permissions are ?--------- and there is a ? for user, group, size and date columns. When I attempt to ...
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Changing file and folder ownership from root?

I created a folder structure as root and now need to transfer ownership to an ordinary user. This question is linked to this one - Providing permission to specific user to access NFS share I have a ...
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Providing permission to specific user to access NFS share

I have two machines between which I need to share a folder. On server1, I have the user 'appuser' that needs to access (read/write/delete) on this share. On server2, 'root' accesses this share and ...
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