Fstab based NFS share mount troubles

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Good morning. I’m trying to set up my newly arrived V and getting myself as confused as when I set up my 4K some years back. I did try restoring settings from my 4K but its not seeing my drives. I figured, probably foolishly, I’d start from scratch again!
My Western Digital NAS shows, on the share page against NFS Access for the 2 Media shares;
Mount Point: nfs://192.168.1.235/nfs/Media
Mount Point: nfs://192.168.1.235/nfs/Media_2

However, using showmount -e I get:
/mnt/HD/HD_b2/Media *
/mnt/HD/HD_a2/Media *

I remember setting this up some years ago was a struggle, but the lines that work currently on the 4K in etc/fstab are;

192.168.1.235:/mnt/HD/HD_b2/Media /4K /mnt/4K nfs x-systemd.automount 0 0
192.168.1.235:/mnt/HD/HD_a2/Media /Films /mnt/Films nfs x-systemd.automount 0 0

but trying this on the V and using sudo mount -a gives
mount.nfs: mount point /mnt/4K does not exist
mount.nfs: mount point /mnt/Films does not exist

I’m a complete novice with this stuff so no doubt I’m doing something predictably stupid, but any help would be really appreciated!

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As you are using fstab, did you first create those 2 folders?

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Are those folders on the V or the NAS? If it’s the V then no, I didn’t. I started with a clean install then started following the wiki instructions. Maybe I jumped a page?

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And yes, as far as I know it’s fstab.

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Yes on the V, do
sudo mkdir /mnt/4K
sudo mkdir /mnt/Films

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The entries in /etc/fstab are mounted at boot time by systemd , which automatically creates missing mountpoints as needed.
If those 2 folders (/mnt/*) do not yet exist, I would first try a reboot.

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thanks both - making those directories and rebooting brought it to life! On to the next challenge.
Thanks for the help.

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