NFS and SMB, Neither work well!

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@MarchHare

That’s what I meant, fstab, lol I know absolutely nothing about networking, let alone unix/linux based networking haha

Than try autofs (as you already have installed it now).

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…