[PLUG] SOLVED Re: Network mount not working

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:05:43 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:

>On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:09:39 -0700
>"Mike C." <mconnors1 at gmail.com> dijo:
>
>>>
>>> For the old Thinkpad I added the same line to its fstab, then
>>> rebooted. 'Synology' does not appear under Places. I can look in the
>>> folder where it's supposed to mounted, but the folder is empty. I
>>> tried 'mount -all' and got:
>>>
>>> mount: /media/jjj/Synology: bad option; for several filesystems
>>> (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a a /sbin/mount.<type> helper
>>> program.
>
>>Is the "old Thinkpad" running a currently updated OS with the
>>nfs-common package installed on it?
>
>I don't know what the nfs-common packages are, but it is a fresh
>install of 20.04. And it happily connects to the web and e-mail.

A quick search revealed that there exists a package named nfs-common,
and it was not installed. After installing it and rebooting all is well
now.

Thanks!