NFS

[bar1]

Hi everyone,

 

I decided not to use Samba with my new set up.

I have an UNRAID box and a raspberry PI running XBMC.

 

I enabled NFS on the shares and now i have 2 problems.

 

1) XBMC immediately see the NFS , which is great.however, it sees the IP address, i am running DHCP and i need it to detect the hostname

2) I seems to have a problem with share with a space, for example TV shows, is only being seen by XBMC as TV and i am unable to browse the files

I checked /etc/exports on unraid and all seems correct.

 

Any advice?

 

[p1lot]

Use fixed ip

 

Avoid whitespaces for sharenames

 

 

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[bar1]

yes, i guess i could do that...any other solutions?

Don't really want to rename all my shares.

 

[BetaQuasi]

Check here re spaces in share names:  http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=15094.0

Re: IP addressing, NFS inherently uses IP's rather than hostnames.

 

If you really want spaces and hostnames, why not just use SMB?

[bar1]

Will i get better performance from NFS?

or not necessary ?

it just make sense (to me anyway) that if the 2 machines are linux...i should use NFS

[BetaQuasi]

Not necessarily - the latest smb implementation is really quite quick.  I'm not sure you'd notice any great difference in performance, especially considering all it seems you'll be doing is streaming media from unRaid to the XBMC-RPi

[dgaschk]

NFS should give the best performance. Try both ways and do a test,