I am trying to use unRaid in conjunction with the Kodi (aka XMBC) TCP interface. 

 

On the Kodi side, I give it the URC as a full path to the movie I wish it to play prefixed by "smb:" as in "smb:\\tower\. . .".  This is enveloped in the proper JSON sequence and the Kodi system plays the movie, but with some issues re buffering.  It was suggested that I use the NFS protocol instead of SMB.  I am running unraid 5.0 RC11 with simple features 1.0.11. Yes I am going to upgrade to 5.0.6 with Dynamix later this week. The unraid system has been up and running for 457 days so I have not touched it in a while.

 

I went to the simple features setting page end enabled nfs (smb is still enabled). I then went to the shares I use, there being three of them (Movies, Concerts, and TVshows) and enabled them for nfs (export=yes)with the security setting being set to Public. I can see that this is correct from a showmount command from another machine.

 

I then send the same command to the Kodi system with smb changed to nfs as in:  "nfs:\\tower\. . . "  That does not work.  No error is returned by Kodi, but the movie does not play.

 

Anyone who has experience with XBMC and unRaid and the NFS protocol or any one at all please offer some assistance if possible.

 

TIA,

 

Barry Gordon

Try adding the NFS share by browsing to it.

SMB and NFS work a bit different when it comes to the path.  NFS needs the full path.

 

SMB example: "smb:\\tower\sharename"

NFS example: "nfs://tower/mnt/user/sharename"

 

If it was for a Disk share (e.g. Disk1) instead of a User share then something like: "nfs://tower/mnt/disk1"

 

Hope that helps!