How to Mount Remote Folder from NAS to you Mac

First of all you need to enable NFS on your Mac, to do this type this command
sudo nfsd enable
next
$ cd /etc/
Then you have to edit if not create file called ‘exports’
$ sudo nano exports
path to your directory you want to mount follow by “-alldirs -mapall=501”
"/Volumes/LaCie" -alldirs -mapall=501
List show user ID (Commonly you want 501)
$ id
Every time you make a change to this file you need to restart NFS services.
$ sudo nfsd restart
Confirm your NFS paths
$ showmount -e

Finally Login to your Synology server, go to ‘File station’ > ‘Tools’ > ‘Mount remote Folder’ > ‘NFS Shared Folder’
In the Folder files put in your Mac’s IP follow by the path
192.168.1.30:/Volumes/LaCie/Plex/plex-movies

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