NFS in Windows 7 and another problem
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Hi,
I'm running XBMC 12.0 RC3 on different plattforms with a mysql database on a virtual ubuntu server.
My video share are NFS shares on a Windows 2008 R2 server (with the included NFS server) and run/ran fine on all my openelec distributions.
One distribution is on a raspberry pi and another on a sandy bridge intel notebook. Both can read and write to and from my nfs share without problems.
But my Windows 7 XBMC can't, I see the share but can't open it. The error in the log is error 13 which points to an authorisation issue but the only thing I can do in the windows NFS server is to allow the ip which I did (and root access of course). Again the same config works for openelec.
Any idea what could be wrong ? I really would like all my XBMC machines to have the same db and that requires the same sources if I'm not completelly mistaken.
Another little issue I ran into is following:
openelec keeps reporting that it's unable to connect to the remote server when scanning for new content or building a new db. It doesn't matter if I use NFS or SMB I get the error either way. Internet access and network connectivity is fine though. I just get that message while scanning but after that everything runs fine.
If anyboby has a clue what I could do about that I would be very happy.

Thanks a whole lot

Nana
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#2
Are your Windows machine running on an ActiveDirectory domain? It could be a NTFS permission issue. Do you have both a SMB and NFS share for the same folder?

As for your other problem, I guess you meant "updating the database" and not "scanning for a new database". I may be mistaking but what you are seeing is a connection error while scraping for content, probably TV content. I've been getting those a lot lately as THETVDB has been going up and down quite a lot.
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#3
Hi Ekred,
thanks for you reply.
No I'm just running a basic fileserver. I have different shares for SMB and NFS (i.e. the whole drive for SMB and just the video folder for NFS).

Yeah I meant updating the db, sorry for that (changed it now). And problems with THETVDB could explain what I'm seeing.
thanks again

Nana
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#4
I tried to reproduce your problem and I seem to be experiencing the same thing.

Did you enable "No server authentication (AUTH_SYS)" on your server?

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#5
Yes I did.
I really have no clue anymore. I was thinking about trying haneWIN NFS Server and see what happens there.
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#6
Hi there,

Did you end up figuring this out? I'm running NFS off of server 2008r2 as well, and keep having "cannot connect to remote server" errors. It seems to work one I connect to the nfs shares manually via mount points in windows, but first thing in the morning all the nfs shares are innaccesable.

Thanks,
Cal.
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#7
Hi,

I've been running the hanewin nfs server for a few weeks now (the trial will be ending soon Sad ) and it seems to work better. Even thoo I think the raw performance of the service is worse than the 2008 included nfs server. I think I'm actually going to switch from windows 2008 r2 to ubuntu at some point (if I find the time and energy)

Nana
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#8
nfs server - linux ...

windows server - samba

Everything in the mix - bad.
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi: NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!: iOS FAQ (wiki)
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