http://sn.1w6.org/file/mk-20140912T074755-29gaztv.html
searching and running across articles about udev and autofs... which aren't installed on Nikola... which may explain why its behavior is so different from Dennis. I really need to have my external disks andd flashdrives (and mounting them) sorted before I can reliably set up backing them up to the NAS. OK then, #breakfast first!