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archimede.pitagorico

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Registered: 2017-05-03

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Kodi: problem creating a NFS source

I cannot create a NFS source.

If I click on AddVideo/Browse/NFS, nothing happens, whereas I expect to get a list of the networks shares defined on the network.

If I define the details of the NFS manually, I get an error "cannot connect".

This all works as expected on Windows and Android versions of Kodi. Only on Arch it does not work.

I tried both Jarvis and Hripton, after a full system upgrade.

Other sources work fine (e.g. http)

tcpdump does not show any outgoing traffic when I try to setup the NFS source.

The only peculiarity of this machine is that it's IP is on a different subnet than the NFS, but from the command line I can mount the NFS without any problem. Also "showmount -e mydomain" works fine. So I would exclude firewall issues.

What am I missing?

archimede.pitagorico

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Registered: 2017-05-03

Posts: 6

Re: Kodi: problem creating a NFS source

Enabling kodi debug log and inspecting the log gives better information.

It required separate installation of libnfs.

Problem solved.

Slithery

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Re: Kodi: problem creating a NFS source

Pacman would have clearly told you that when you installed kodi...

Optional dependencies for kodi
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    libnfs: NFS shares support
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aktentasche

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Registered: 2016-04-25

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Re: Kodi: problem creating a NFS source

You need the insecure flag in your server's /etc/exports file. After adding the flag, reload by exportfs -ra.

That solved the problem for me.

graysky

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Re: Kodi: problem creating a NFS source

Optional dependencies for kodi
    ...
    libnfs: NFS shares support
    ...

You need the insecure flag in your server's /etc/exports file. After adding the flag, reload by exportfs -ra.

I spent some time making this clear on the kodi wiki article... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ko … NFS_server

Last edited by graysky (2017-06-04 16:05:25)

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