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district_11 · 2013-10-12, 12:48

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?

doug piston · (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.

district_11 · 2013-10-12, 17:35

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.

doug piston · (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)

thd042 · 2013-10-12, 19:51

How do you handle name resolving in your network? In order to get DNS to run, I had to put the following into /etc/dhcp/dhcp.conf:

Code:
#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";

send host-name "xbmc";

# send fqdn.fqdn = gethostname();

send dhcp-client-identifier 00:52:d3:89:69:aa;

The client identifier you get on the xbmc-box with "ifconfig" in a terminal window, look for that line:

Code:
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:52:d3:89:69:aa

          inet addr:192.168.178.31  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

eth0 for wired.
Not sure how to achive the same for your NAS, but you should be able from the xbmc-box with a "ping nasname". If that does not work, you need to convince you NAS to send its name with the DHCP-request. Chances are good that it is also a Linux-based box, and you can do the same as with your xbmc.box.

nickr · 2013-10-13, 00:19

don't let the nas change ip address. Any setup that allows a server to change it's ip address is just silly.

**SikeMo** · (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.

nickr · 2013-10-13, 20:34

This is not about susend. It's about a server changing it's IP address.

**SikeMo** · 2013-10-13, 20:57

Should I start a separate thread then?

nickr · 2013-10-13, 22:00

no you should search for the myriad of other threads covering the same question.