ugreen – Kev's Development Toolbox

April 23, 2026April 23, 2026

Mounting SMB and NFS shares from ugreen NAS on Linux

To mount an NFS share on Ubuntu:

sudo mount -t nfs4 ip-address=of-nas:/volume[x]/sharename /mnt/path

If you get this error:

mount: /mnt/path: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program

Install helpers (from here):

# for NFS
sudo apt install nfs-common

# for SMB
sudo apt install cifs-utils

For mounting an SMB share using a specific userid (will be prompted for password):

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=your-user-id //ip-address/sharename /mnt/path

Note for ugreen NAS shares, the sharename is just the sharename and not /volume[]x]/sharename

October 19, 2025October 26, 2025

rsync files to a Ugreen NAS

Ensure ‘Enable backup rsync service’ is enabled in your Ugreen Control Panel, and select an existing user that will be used when transferring with rsync:

To rsync a local folder to your Ugreen NAS, use:

rsync -avz ./local-folder/  user-enabled-for-rsync@your-ugreen-ip:NAME_OF_SHARE

Note that instead of using the path of a folder on a volume, e.g. /volume1/folder, if folder is the name of the share, use this as the target path without any absolete path prefix.

This is hinted at in this post, and while it seems to differ from how you’d normally specify a remote destination, this is how rsync on a Ugreen appears to work.