Transferring files to a USB attached drive

Question

I did a quick search and found someone who had a similar issue to this but was ahead of me so I'm not sure how to set this up? I have my pi connected to my router with a 4 bay nas drive connected to the pi via USB. When I turn on the pi and type startx I have to add the drives manually each time, which is fine if I keep the pi running 24/7. I have installed netatalk and the home directory shows up on my shared network, but I can't seem to access the media folder. I know I'm supposed to type: sudo nano /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default and edit the drive I want to mount but I'm not sure what aprt to edit and when I do change a line down at the bottom which relates to home directory I can no longer connect to the pi? Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You are asking 2 questions:- 1. How to automount network drives 2. How to connect to a mounted drive on th Pi using netatalk.

A suggestion for the 2nd is to add lines at the end of /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default. Mine contains the line /etc "$hRoot" which lets Appletalk mount the directory /etc as "$hRoot" where the $h is replaced by the Pi Hostname (default raspberrypi). You could use /media/MountPoint for each drive or just /media for all mounted volumes.

# The line below sets some DEFAULT, starting with Netatalk 2.1.

:DEFAULT: options:upriv,usedots

# By default all users have access to their home directories.
~/          $hHome

:PIROOT: options:upriv,usedots,ro
/etc            "$hRoot"
# End of File

I cannot give a definitive answer for the 1st, as I don't do this, but you normally would add an entry to /etc/fstab. If you run mount after you have manually mounted a drive this will give an idea of the settings. Post a new question about this if you need further help.