NAS connect

Installation
1

I have HA installed on dedicated system, not VM.
Having trouble connecting to QNAP NAS.

First question. Do I use Samba or NFS to try and connect?

I tried the QNAP addon and it connected fine. I tried connecting while it was active. No luck. So I deleted it in case it was conflicting.

I created a shared file on QNAP named differently over several attempts. Backup, Media, Share, HA. None connected. Each time I create a shared file the QNAP generates a path that is just the name of the file with / in front. Samba attempt does not like that.

Is there a particular way on the QNAP to create the shared folder to allow HA to connect? Or is it on the HA end? The path?

2

I’m using the “Samba share” addon from the addon store. The folder is mapped in Network Storage

image
image616×237 6.93 KB

3

On my QNAP the shared folder is on the HDD named DataVol2. The folder is called Media. It has a user and password enabled. R/W allowed. The path that QNAP displays is /Media. The user is enabled in the QNAP users list. Is that all good on that end? I installed Samba share.

4

By the way, I can see both the homeassistant and QNAP server in my network. Can log into each one from my windows machine.

5

image
image611×900 30.6 KB

When setting up the network storage in HA you will put that info here.

6

In samba share should the user and password be the same as home assistant ?
And the same as the share folder user on the qnap?

7

Whatever the outcome, thanks very much for trying to help.

8

I reinstalled the QNAP integration. It connected fine. So there must be some issues with path or authorization trying to use share.

9

I tried the generated links from QNAP create sharelink only, the default share path, NFS, and all sorts of combinations. I usually get this.

Mounting Share did not succeed. Check host logs for errors from mount or systend unit mnt-data-supervisor-mounts-Share.mount for details.

No details in QNAP logs.

HA log.

2025-07-16 17:00:47.268 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.hassio] Failed to to call /mounts - Mounting Share did not succeed. Check host logs for errors from mount or systemd unit mnt-data-supervisor-mounts-Share.mount for details.

10

No, they don’t have to be the same.