How to mount NFS share in XBMC Live? (Asrock ION/ Synology Diskstation)

I have a Synology Diskstation DS-207 which supports NFS. I have an Asrock ION with XBMC Live 9.11 alpha on it (USB Stick). The throughput from samba shares is insufficient sometimes (100Mbit LAN).

I want to mount the NFS share i set up on the Diskstation, but i'm a linux noob.

I found this, but i don't understand it:

I think a noob tutorial on how to do this would be great.

Questions:
- Can this be done on XBMC LIVE? Where can i find the command line? Pressing "c" on the boot selection screen gives me a prompt, but that doesn't understand the command "sudo"?
- Do i need Ubuntu and install XBMC on that instead of just XBMC LIVE?
- What are the exact commands if my Diskstation has IP 192.168.1.1 and i want to share the folder "Video"?

Can anyone please help?

Using Putty or equivelant open a terminal and login to your XBMC Live

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=61464

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=50489

CTRL-ALT F2. Alternatively use putty from a different pc, enter ip adress and linux account.

I am also interested. DVD menu's take up to a minute to launch here. I heard with NFS that is way faster but I don't understand it either.

BounceMeister Wrote:Where can i find the command line?

this really has nothing to do with xbmc at all, so you might have better luck at the ubuntu forums. Nonetheless, you just have to add a line to your /etc/fstab with the info as you posted. This was useful to me when I first needed to know how: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

To get you quick answer, this is how I have it setup:

create a file in your home directory called nfs_share:


make the file executable:


edit the file and put your shares there


here is the content of mine for example:


where 192.168.0.1 is IP address of my box with nfs share and after colon /media/misc is a share point , last /media/misc is local directory on your XBMClive box where it needs to be mounted so these directories has to exist first, save and close


to create directories:


Now you have to call your nfs_share file when system is booting. I am not sure about XBMClive but on regular ubuntu I added a file to /etc/rc2.d/


and out this in there


sleep 5 is there because for whatever reason my network is not up fast enough, you can probably skip that line

save and close, make that file executable:


you can do all that using putty or with the console like kees667 suggested

Thanks for the clear info, also useful to me. My shares have a logon ans password, do you know in which steps and how I'd have to include those?

You should not need to use the username and password. You generally have to enable the IP addy of the xbmc box on the server for NFS access. then xbmc should be able to connect to it.

I tried it. all goes well except the last step. I get:

chmod: cannot access `pico': No such file or directory

I think the pico shouldn't be there, as that is the text editor. I guess chmod is the command and it should run on the file so I changed to

That didnt give errors. Will go downstairs now and reboot. Then Check if I can find it in XBMC. Will post results here.

Thanks for getting me this far!

EDIT: Went downstairs. System booted but I don't know how to see the shares. Adding source doesn't bring up anything that looks like NFS, and if I select network adress I can select a lot of things from itunes to SMB but also no NFS. Haven't searched yet but if someone knows ....

uomiarz Wrote:save and close, make that file executable:

Code:

sudo chmod +x pico /etc/rc2.d/S99nfs_startup

kees667 Wrote:I tried it. all goes well except the last step. I get:

chmod: cannot access `pico': No such file or directory

I think the pico shouldn't be there, as that is the text editor. I guess chmod is the command and it should run on the file so I changed to

Code:

sudo chmod +x /etc/rc2.d/S99nfs_startup

That didnt give errors. Will go downstairs now and reboot. Then Check if I can find it in XBMC. Will post results here.

Thanks for getting me this far!

EDIT: Went downstairs. System booted but I don't know how to see the shares. Adding source doesn't bring up anything that looks like NFS, and if I select network adress I can select a lot of things from itunes to SMB but also no NFS. Haven't searched yet but if someone knows ....

you are correct, my mistake, fixed
pico is the file editor that you don't need in this step

Thx. I still havent figured out what to do in XBMC next, can you tell me please?

Edit: I "Think" I need to browse to "/media/misc". Only problem is when I select "add source" and then browse is that I get many options, most of which are network related and "home folder" but I don't know how to browse to "/media/misc"