[severe]

Hello.

I've attempted to post this to stmlabs.com/forum/ to no avail. Something wrong over there?

At any rate… as an original Apple TV owner, I've been following Crystalbuntu's progress for quite awhile. After many delays, today I've managed to create a working USB stick and get things up and running. Exciting.

However, I'm having difficulty networking as a result of Apple no longer supporting SMB in Lion as it seems. So I've decided to move onto NFS. And now I'm having a problem getting XBMC to recognize my USB drive connected to my tower upstairs. (an aging Mac Pro)

I've tried to follow directions given here. And directions given here.

This first link got me as far as installing nfs-common, but I ran into permission problems when trying to edit the fstab file as suggested.

The second link seemed to be going well until I got to the "Download most recent XBMC nightly" part, which seems to incorporate an NFS client into the latest version of XBMC. I'm not sure how this is done with Crystalbuntu. Can I grab the latest nightly? How? Is it suggested? Running NFS Manager seems to have gone well, as test results were positive, but I can't get any further.

Can someone help me out here? I'm too many hours into this to comfortably admit, been forwarding calls to VM, and am about to go on full nerd rage. You know where I'm coming from, yes?

[jawilljr]

NFS Server/Client Ubuntu

I don't know about Apple...but that is what used to get NFS working in Ubuntu.

Jerry

[X3lectric]

current mainline XBMC git can be compiled with NATIVE NFS support no need for all that crap, its long winded and a pita to setup 100%.

for a lion samba fix http://www.johnlarge.co.uk/2011/07/19/os...t-working/

for NFS

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ompile+nfs
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...osx&page=3
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Net..._%28NFS%29

[severe]

Thanks, though that's confused me even more.

I think I've made some progress. I've figured out how to edit the fstab file and put it in its place. And I've also created a folder named nfs in the home directory. Now, however, I'm having a difficult time configuring the correct shared IP, etc.

I've tried 192.168.1.4:/Medios /home/atv/nfs nfs rw 0 0 and 192.168.1.4:/Medios /home/atv/nfs nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,bg after having searched a few threads on the subject. After the suggested reboot, I browse to /home/atv/nfs but see nothing.

I think all I'm missing is the correct string here.

Still at a loss.

[MasterOe]

Thanks, though that's confused me even more.

I think I've made some progress. I've figured out how to edit the fstab file and put it in its place. And I've also created a folder named nfs in the home directory. Now, however, I'm having a difficult time configuring the correct shared IP, etc.

I've tried 192.168.1.4:/Medios /home/atv/nfs nfs rw 0 0 and 192.168.1.4:/Medios /home/atv/nfs nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,bg after having searched a few threads on the subject. After the suggested reboot, I browse to /home/atv/nfs but see nothing.

I think all I'm missing is the correct string here.

Still at a loss.

first of all you do not need a reboot to look if you nfs works, just do a

sudo mount -a

you will see the error message when he could not mount something..

anyway i'm using nfs without any problems in crystalbuntu, i do not use the direct ip in fstab

try to add the ip to the hosts table and map the servername, instead of the ip.

when 192.168.1.4 is your server called serverxy your /etc/hosts should look like (at the beginnig):

192.168.1.4 serverxy

and your /etc/fstab should look like:

serverxy:/Medios ...

good luck!

masteroe

[Sam.Nazarko]

I approved your post and answered this on my forum .