[LjStronge]

Hi

Not sure if this is an issue with XBMC or FREENAS. So apologies it it's the latter.

I currently have XBMC setup on my HTPC (Windows 8) and on my Raspberry PI (RaspBMC). I currently have a SMB share set up that works fine for streaming my media from my NAS.

My Nas is a FREENAS System (8.3.0)

SMB works fine but I understand that NFS has less CPU overhead, so is therefore better sorted to streaming data to my PI. I have set up my NFS share on my FREENAS but whenever I go to add a share in XBMC, I click on NFS and the system does nothing but think about it for a min and then nothing. No error message, no browse option etc.

I have tried to use the "Browse Network" option too, and I input the NFS share as

NFS//<my freeenas ip>/Share/to/path

But again, nothing.

I presume I am completing it correctly in FREENAS. I have checked the wiki here

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=NFS

and made sure that it is all set up, unfortunately the instructions for my version of Freenas are not great.

Anyone else had any issues with this?

****EDIT****

My Log file only shows the following which isn't helping me either

09:58:36 T:2128 DEBUG: NFS: Context for not open - get a new context.
09:58:36 T:2128 ERROR: NFS: Failed to mount nfs share: (nfs_mount_async failed)
09:58:36 T:5488 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogBusy.xml) ------
09:58:39 T:5488 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting nfs://
09:58:39 T:5488 ERROR: CGUIDialogFileBrowser::GetDirectory(nfs://) failed
09:58:39 T:5488 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogBusy.xml) ------

[Milhouse]

Can you access your NFS shares from the OS, using mount? eg.:

Code:

sudo mkdir /mnt/freenas
sudo mount -t nfs <freenas-ip-address>:/mnt/<share-name> /mnt/freenas

[Scottes]

If your HTPC is Windows then you'll need an NFS client like Hanewin (http://www.hanewin.net/nfs-e.htm) or the Microsoft Services For Unix stuff (http://superuser.com/questions/525473/ho...-windows-8)

I don't know FreeNAS, but I assume it's based on it's Linux, so edit /etc/exports, list the path to the videos, network/mask, and options. I just use (ro) - read-only - since I have no desire to let other system muck with the files.

[root@nasbox etc]# cat exports
/shared/q 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(ro)

Restart the NFS services, and then make sure they're exported by running "showmount -e" on the FreeNAS bos.
[root@nasbox etc]# showmount -e
Export list for nasbox:
/shared/u 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

Afte the Client is installed and configured, and the server set as above, then you should be good to go.