Hi,
i would like to use a media player on my raspi (running node red) playing files from my synology drive.
I used hard coding of the path (not via msg) in the form afp://mysynology.local/video
mysynology is a placefolder and is replaced with the actual name.
I copied the path from the filemanager in the raspi.
Unfortunately this does not work. "File could not be accessed"
How can i access the /music folder in my synology? It requires logon credentials, how can that be sent to the synology?
Raspi and synology are happy with each other, from file manager i can start videos by double clicking them.
Mount the share on the RPi then access the files as if they were local.
https://saywebsolutions.com/blog/mounting_synology_nas_shared_folder_nfs_ubuntu_16_10
Wow, that was quick! Thank you!
I'll check that later tonight.
Well, it works ... and not.
Step 5 of the instruction: the setup is not reboot persistent. Auto mount on boot does not work. Must be done manually.
You have several options with a Synology NAS. The most efficient file share will generally be SMB (AKA CIFS), a Windows file share. For that, you need cifs-utils. You could also use NFS as Colin shared. You can also use AFP which I think is Apple's file share. You can even use SCP or SFTP or FTPS.
Internet searches turned these up which may help:
Pretty sure that's the second time you have called me Colin 
Doh! Well at my age what do you expect, I can barely remember my own after some days at work! 
Sorry Mcl, I'll try harder next time!
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Hopefully you don't consider that as an insult.
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Haha no. A compliment indeed Colin.
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