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Hi, I had completed the steps in the original post, and could see the fileshare from Kodi on an Nvidia Shield and from a separate Windows 10 machine, all on the same ethernet network. But I could not browse the files. What fixed it for me was on the server machine (also Windows 10), Network and Sharing Center -> All Networks -> Password protected sharing, I had to "Turn on password protected sharing" and then create a local (non-Microsoft) user account with a password. Then I could enter that username and password when I tried to mount the share in Kodi.
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Simply done....sadly not
Im running Kodi 18.1 Leia on Android TV (8.0) and Windows 10
I've tried both methods, from this thread and the one mentioned in post #2
I am able to start the server, but in Kodi on my Android TV i cannot find/connect to this share
My TV is connected through wifi and my PC through cable on my home network
PC local IP is 192.168.1.5
The share i created with the service is named KODISETS on C:\KODISETS\
I try to add a NFS on nfs://192.168.1.5/KODISETS/
Kodi just hangs and eventually times out, not finding anything
I have some smb shares which work fine, but are too slow
What am i doing wrong
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Veggie
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For Private Networks yes, I don't know which ports are required, but for testing i opened up all
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I did the setup for one folder and it worked, but when I try multiple shares I get an error. It only let's me run one of the services at a time.
I have Windows 10 Home.
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In the event viewer it says the service was started, but in services it's not running. When I start it, it says "Windows could not start the service Media-NFS on local computer"
In the event view log it says "The Media-NFS service terminated with the following service-specific error:
The system cannot find the path specified."
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2020-02-09, 23:55
(This post was last modified: 2020-02-10, 02:47 by Wheresthebeef.)
Can't believe I finally got this working properly.
Tried setting this up like a year ago and while it would show the NFS shares in Kodi, the movie and tv folders would all be empty inside for some reason. I could only see folders but not the contents.
For the life of me I could not figure out the issue at the time. I ended up giving up and just used SMB instead to access my movies/tv shares.
Came across this thread again by accident and decided to try again since I still would rather use NFS over SMB.
Not sure what was different this time, but hot damn it's working.
I created a service following OPs cmd instructions to share my entire E:\ and then allowed the winnfsd.exe program through the windows firewall
Started up the service and then manually added the share into Kodi (nfs://192.168.1.12/MoviesTV/)
No issues at all accessing the contents of E:\ now through this share. Can't believe it. As long as it continues to work without issue, this will be a great free solution for using NFS on Windows!
Thanks OP.
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I find the NFS server to be a bit unstable. I wish there was another solution that is actively maintained.