Noob help with connecting to NAS

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@PaulG

The one thought that’s going through my mind is logon details. Would I expect to be prompted to enter them when connecting or do they have to be pre-configured somehow?

You normally will be prompted for them but sometimes there are issues with that, but if in doubt check .kodi/userdata/passwords.xml

Personally I would go with the autofs approach, that will give you peace of mind in the long run.

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…