How to mount a Western Digital ShareSpace NFS share

mariusvw — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:42:59 +0000

This might become handy if you want to connect the drive on a FreeBSD or Linux machine to easy transfer files to it.

Enable NFS on your Western Digital ShareSpace

Log into your web interface and goto Advanced Mode

Goto the tab Network

Goto Services

Here check the Enable checkbox and add the IP of the machine you want to grant access

Next goto Storage

Edit the share preferences

Enable NFS support for this share

Goto Users

Edit the user preferences

Grand optional write access to this user

List mounts

showmount -e 192.168.2.3

Connect mountpoint

# Read only
mount -t nfs 192.168.2.3:/DataVolume/backup /mnt/
# Read / Write
mount -t nfs -o rw 192.168.2.3:/DataVolume/backup /mnt/

Add share to /etc/fstab

172.16.32.44:/DataVolume/backup /backup nfs rw  2   2

Mount with mount -a