[nola mike]

Running an ubuntu 13.10 backend server with generic mythtv setup (whatever version is in the repos). Multiple xbmc frontends, all some flavor of gotham nightly within the last month (and all then updated to the latest version). I have videos in the stock location on the backend (/var/lib/mythtv/videos) that I had been accessing via nfs from the frontends. Yesterday started getting "could not connect to network server" errors from all frontends. When I try to edit the video source in xbmc, I can see the backend and can browse to /var/log/mythtv and see the videos/recordings/music/pictures directories, but can not select them or go deeper. I don't think I changed any backend settings recently.
Here's my /etc/exports file on the backend:

Code:

/var/lib/mythtv/recordings    *(ro,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/var/lib/mythtv/videos    *(ro,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/var/lib/mythtv/music    *(ro,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/var/lib/mythtv/pictures    *(ro,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)

And output from mount on the backend:

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/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=mythuser)

And mount on a frontend:

Code:

/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

If I manually mount the nfs filesystem (create a new dir on the remote machine), I can then browse to that directory and add it as a source. Any ideas?

[nickr]

You don't need to mount any directories or shares to use the cmyth plugun.

[nola mike]

OK, so why isn't it working?