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I have an Intel NUC running XBMCBuntu 12.2, and a WD NAS drive.
I can find my drive easily enough on XBMC, but when the I.P address of my NAS drive changes, XBMC loses connection to it, and I have to clean my library, then reconfigure XBMC to point to the new I.P of my NAS drive.
Is this a Linux, XBMC or NAS issue?
If its a Linux problem, would using a Windows OS fix it?
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2013-10-12, 16:37
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-12, 16:57 by doug piston.)
Are you using NFS or samba? If you are losing connection when the IP changes I'm guessing NFS but I don't know a ton on samba to say for sure. If it is NFS you can either edit your exports to accept all IP's or setup a static IP on the NAS.
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NFS. I tried Windows SMB too, but get the same problem.
How do I edit my exports to accept all I.P's?
I did have a look at setting up my NAS with a static I.P, but it wanted me to fill in the I.P and Netmask, though I have no idea what I should put in them.
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2013-10-12, 18:13
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-12, 18:14 by doug piston.)
I have my setup as all static so I have not tested this but something like this should work, Just change the IP in the exports file to
192.168.X.0/24 (Of course replace the 'X' with whatever yours is)
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don't let the nas change ip address. Any setup that allows a server to change it's ip address is just silly.
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2013-10-13, 20:05
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-13, 20:06 by SikeMo.)
I have a similar problem with NFS, however it is related to suspend. After resuming from suspend XBMC loses its connection to my QNAP NAS. I have a static IP address, so that's not the problem.
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This is not about susend. It's about a server changing it's IP address.
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Should I start a separate thread then?
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no you should search for the myriad of other threads covering the same question.
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