Mounting a Synology NAS

Posted by HBCharles

Hi, I run my Plex instance on a synology diskstation 418play and previously had a separate Windows PC running my Sonarr and Radarr. I've spun up a ubuntu server and installed sparkbox and it all looks fantastic and worked extremely well. However, the step i am now struggling with is this: How do I mount my synology NAS as a network drive so that sonarr/radarr etc can copy over files once downloaded through qbittorrent? I already have a shared folder (/volume1/Plex) on the Synology set up, as i used this for my Windows stack install. Plex is already up and running on the NAS with my current library, i just need to be able to have new stuff copied over to it. Thanks in advance and again, great work with the tool!

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Chris wrote:

Two steps and you're sorted. First, mount the Synology share on your Ubuntu box: install cifs-utils, create a mount point like /mnt/plex, add an fstab entry with nofail,netdev and uid=1000,gid=1000 (so the containers can write to it), then run sudo mount -a. Second, point SparkBox at it: add MEDIAROOT=/mnt/plex (no spaces or quotes) to /opt/sparkbox/.env and run sudo sparkbox up. The share then appears as /data inside the apps — Radarr's root is /data/Movies and Sonarr's is /data/TV, so match those to your existing Plex folders. Since it's a network share, imports are copies rather than hardlinks, which is exactly the copy-to-the-NAS behaviour you're after.