I never really liked NFS, so I wanted another way to mount a drive from my QNAP NAS onto my linux machine. As I haven’t found any sort of instruction for that online, I’ll post how I did it here, in case anybody searches for the same thing.
The how is hurdled mostly by the fact that you cannot install SSHFS onto QTS, as the package ist not available for it. But as so often, the solution is Docker. We’ll just create an Ubuntu-Container where we can install SSHFS, and mount the directory we want to share as a volume. This of course requires that you have a NAS with Container Station, allowing to use Docker Containers.
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