How do I mount NFS through nautilus?

Question

I have an NFS share that I need to connect to (for reasons of speed).

If I try to connect through Nautilus->Connect to Server, I get the error "This file server type is not recognised."

I have looked for a Nautilus plugin and only found nfs-lan, which appears not to have been touched since 2013, and which also appears to fail a number of package checks.

Now, these look minor issues, but it's not a good sign.

Is there any better option for mounting NFS shares through Nautilus?

Apparently GVFS does support NFS now: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gvfs-list/2015-March/msg00000.html, but Ubuntu doesn't have it for some reason: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=wily&arch=any&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=gvfsd-nfs. Maybe a file a bug report asking for its inclusion. — muru, Mar 21 '16 at 05:19
@muru Thanks for the tip! I tried uncommenting the "#nfs: nfs" line in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf but then I realised that the gvfsd-backends package is missing gvfsd-nfs also. So I think I need to get the package source and compile it back in. — tudor -Reinstate Monica-, Mar 21 '16 at 22:58
I got gvfsd-nfs to compile, but it's still not recognising nfs as a file server type. :-( Looking at the dialog code I suspect unintentional hardcoding! :-\ — tudor -Reinstate Monica-, Mar 29 '16 at 00:01

tudor -Reinstate Monica- · Answer 1 · 2016-11-29T03:42:55.910

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** Interim Answer **

I'm still trying to get the dialog to work properly but, as a temporary workaround, I thought I should share this:

Tested in 15.10, 16.04, and 16.10, if you create a mount point for each NFS mount in /media/[username] like this:

sudo mkdir /media/user/Kn-Qmultimedia
sudo mkdir /media/user/Kn-Public

And then add the intended NFS mounts to /etc/fstab (sudo gedit /etc/fstab) like this:

192.168.1.100:/Qmultimedia  /media/user/Kn-Qmultimedia  nfs user,noauto 0   0
192.168.1.100:/Public   /media/user/Kn-Public   nfs user,noauto 0   0

Then Nautilus will show an NFS mount in the bookmarks that is cleanly mountable and unmountable:

Not quite the answer, but it doesn't hurt as much and you can use it until I find the proper answer. :-)

edited Nov 29 '16 at 03:42

answered Mar 29 '16 at 00:13

tudor -Reinstate Monica-

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you are now using `mount` instead of `gvfs-mount`. – ukos Jul 23 '18 at 13:30
@ukos Yep, that's why the answer starts with "**Interim Answer**" Do you know how to do it with `gvfs-mount`? – tudor -Reinstate Monica- Jul 24 '18 at 02:15
Sorry no. I think gio mount is the way to go but I havent trief yet. https://developer.gnome.org/pygobject/stable/class-giomount.html – ukos Jul 25 '18 at 09:01
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You can add the option`x-gvfs-show` to your `fstab` nfs mounts to add this button to newer nautilus: – ukos Jul 31 '18 at 12:28

How do I mount NFS through nautilus?

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