Hello.

 

After reading quite a bit about various RAID options and NAS systems, I settled on unRAID and built my first unRAID box last week  .  The primary purpose is to store media to be streamed to my TViX M6500 (and potentially a second NMT to a second location, possibly PH C200).  In the past, I've stored content on various drives and used Allegro NFS on a Vista PC to share to the M6500A, with great success.  Though the unRAID build went well and content is happily stored and "protected", I have not been able to share content via NFS; Samba has been creating "stuttering" issues.

 

I'm bordering on Linux illiterate, but I'm savvy enough to follow instructions posted on the FAQ, pour through enough posts here and other sites, and start reading up on Linux.  However, after a week, I'm still not able to connect via NFS, getting the "cannot connect" error message on the M6500A.  I'm now seeking help . . .

 

Here's the basic info:

 

unRAID 4.5-beta6 (hope this is on topic)

 

M6500 settings: 

    IP Address = 192.168.0.103

    Network Disc 1 = Normal (NFS)

    share name = Media

    server IP = 192.168.0.110

 

unRAID settings: 

    IP Address = 192.168.0.110

    Disc Shares (NFS) = *(rw)

    share Name = Media

    Export NFS = mount 192.168.0.110:/mnt/usr/Media  192.168.0.103(ro)

    All SMB settings are left on Export read/write, should they be switched to Don't Export

 

I feel like my inexperience has left me missing, forgetting, or botching something.  I greatly would appreciate any help here; if more information is needed, I can provide.  I know Koperfild has had success with NFS and TViX (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2827.msg23286#msg23286); hope to be able to join him.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Y

I have never tried to get the NSF feature to work.  But I know my issue was always the share name.  try TVIXHD1 as your share name.

I have never tried to get the NSF feature to work.  But I know my issue was always the share name.  try TVIXHD1 as your share name.

I second that.

and set login and password to tvixhd1 too

Jesseasi and Jupilerman,

 

Thank you both for the information.  I renamed the share tvixhd1 but still no success with NFS.  I have a sneaking suspicion I'm either entering incorrect path info in unRAID or need to do something on the flash drive.  Or perhaps I need to try the use non-beta OS (4.4.2)?

 

Y

Well, in fact, i don't use the NFS feature. I just use the samba.

It works fine for me (tvix 6500) and is set as follow :

on the TVIX :

server name : tvixhd1

server IP : 192.168.***.*** (unRAID IP)

ID : tvixhd1

Password : tvixhd1

 

on the unRAID :

User shares

Share name : tvixhd1

 

This works fine for me.

 

 

I will test the NFS and tell you what it does for me.

 

Later : I can't use NFS with the tvix6500.

Since NFS is still in beta state, that could be the cause (tvix don't recognize it correctly).

My suggestion : use the samba. I works fine.

 

Thanks again, Jupilerman.  I'm using Samba which works well for some files but not all (hence the need for NFS which worked with my PC); any high bitrate content (ie, .m2ts "Hunt For Red October") stutters.

 

I'm perplexed; except for those few who have luckily managed to get NFS to work, some others report using SMB with success.  I'm sure we all play back different content but I assume (maybe or maybe not correctly) that we all have some high bitrate material.  Perhaps there are network differences?  I'm running gigabit throughout (except the 6500 which does not have a giga NIC) with CAT6 wire.  Any suggestions to tweak the network and prevent stuttering?  I'm probably off topic now but appreciate the help.

 

Thanks,

 

Y

unRAID settings: 

    IP Address = 192.168.0.110

    Disc Shares (NFS) = *(rw)

    share Name = Media

    Export NFS = mount 192.168.0.110:/mnt/usr/Media  192.168.0.103(ro)

    All SMB settings are left on Export read/write, should they be switched to Don't Export

 

I'm using a Popcorn Hour (PCH), so not exactly the same.  But here's a couple of thoughts:

 

1. User shares on unRAID are at /mnt/user/<ShareName>, so your Export NFS on unRAID should really point to /mnt/user/Media

      NOTE:  I'm not using Export NFS, so I can't vouch for the validity of either version of the mount command

 

2.  I can't figure out how to export a user share to NFS either, so here's an alternative that works on my PCH setup.

      NOTE:  This works on my unRAID for a disk share named Media on disk#

 

PCH settings:

    IP Address = 192.168.0.103

    Share Name = nfs://192.168.0.110:/mnt/disk#/Media

 

unRAID settings: 

    IP Address = 192.168.0.110

    Disc Shares (SMB) = Export read/write

    Disc Shares (NFS) = 192.168.0.103(rw)

    User Shares = Enabled

    Share Name = Media

    Included Disk(s) = disk#

    Export SMB = Export read/write

    Export NFS =

 

Hope this helps!

Kevin

 

Kevin,

 

Thanks for the info, but still no NFS shares after implementing your suggestions.  At this point, I'm tabling the matter; it now seems to me that NFS is, as stated in the FAQ, still a work in progress in unRAID, or I'm having some kind of unRAID/TViX compatibility issue.  I'll use SMB where possible and copy high bitrate files to a PC HD and share via NFS from there.  It's a bummer, but there's always a workaround . . . 

 

Thanks again to all those who tried helping out.

 

Y

As someone who has had a PCH for a long time, I've seen the product mature over the last few years - specifically with optimizing SMB protocol.  When I first got the PCH, NFS was the only way I could playback AVCHD 1080 content.  This eventually changed and now SMB is just as fast as NFS.

 

I'm curious as to what the speed expectations are for both protocols?  PCH also has HTTP available but runs as a Windows app (not to convenient but fast).

I always thought nfs needed dns or host file of both host and server to be available.

of course, using the ipaddress would bypass that.

I Finaly get the NFS work with my TviX   

A sampel ts file with bitrate over 40Mb stutte over SAMBA now onNFS it's play FLAWLESS     

 

So far so good, going to test more later today

 

//Peter

I Finaly get the NFS work with my TviX   

A sampel ts file with bitrate over 40Mb stutte over SAMBA now onNFS it's play FLAWLESS     

 

So far so good, going to test more later today

 

//Peter

can you explain your setup ?

how did you do it ?

 

Hi I can try .....

 

First on the unRAID I have a share named tvixhd1, on that I add *(ro) the Export (NFS):

 

Then on the TviX side

Goto Setup -> Network -> Networkdisk1, there I changed from SAMBA to NFS then I changed tvixhd1 to  /mnt/user/tvixhd1/

 

And .... Thats IT 

 

The first test file I used was the Elephants Dream with following bit rate.

 

Format                          : MPEG Video

Format_Version                   : Version 2

Format_Profile                   : Main@High

Duration/String                  : 10 min

Bitrate                         : 44,3 Mbps

BitRate_Nominal/String           : 39,1 Mbps

1920*1080 : 24,000 fps

 

This was played flawless 

 

Uing TviX  Firmware 1.5.10 Pre-release

 

Now I moving some of my BD to the server to test more, then I need to bye more discs and a pro licens   

 

What I will do now is to see if there are any tweak to add to the NFS settings... or is there someone here that know if there are some other settings that I can add ?

 

//Peter

I changed tvixhd1 to  /mnt/user/tvixhd1/

 

Then it seems reasonable to expect that any unRAID user share can be accessed as "/mnt/user/<name>", i.e., that not just "tvixhd1" works.

 

Indeed, I just checked and I can confirm that it works on a TViX M-4000 with 2.2.7 firmware.

I changed tvixhd1 to  /mnt/user/tvixhd1/

 

Then it seems reasonable to expect that any unRAID user share can be accessed as "/mnt/user/<name>", i.e., that not just "tvixhd1" works.

 

Indeed, I just checked and I can confirm that it works on a TViX M-4000 with 2.2.7 firmware.

 

Great, an yes any share could do it, not only tvixhd1, but that was the way I tested it :-)

/mnt/user/tvixhd1/

Of course. Why didn't I think about that before ?...

 

Thx for the tip

I have one more tip 

 

If you set the IP addresses on tvix at fixed, and fixed on the server, that give a boost for high bitrate BD  , this have been verified from a friend of to me 

But he was using  TviX -> PC(Windows) with Netshare, And he play all BD disc flawless no, before it stuttered all the time.!!

 

So only set a fix IP solve the problem

 

I going to test this as well on my Unraid box, I also have a test file with a bit rate of 72Mbit    I come back later with the results 

 

 

Hi I have tried with a sample ts file with high bit-rate, this file is playing flawless.

 

But what I'm wondering is which NFS parameter are unRAID are using, I'm only put in (ro) but I also want to try "rsize=8192,wsize=8192" and see if that have some improvement or not, but add this to the NFS like this (ro,rsize=8192,wsize=8192) the I cant acess the share from my tvix ??

 

  bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help
  input: /proc/net/dev type: avg (30s)
  \         iface                   Rx                   Tx                Total
  ==============================================================================
               lo:           0.00 KB/s            0.00 KB/s            0.00 KB/s
             eth0:          50.88 KB/s         6053.96 KB/s         6104.84 KB/s
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            total:          50.88 KB/s         6053.96 KB/s         6104.84 KB/s

 

  bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 0.500s), press 'h' for help
  input: /proc/net/dev type: max
  |         iface                   Rx                   Tx                Total
  ==============================================================================
               lo:          14.74 KB/s           14.74 KB/s           29.47 KB/s
             eth0:          80.06 KB/s         9562.46 KB/s         9642.51 KB/s
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            total:          87.78 KB/s         9562.46 KB/s         9642.51 KB/s

Many thanks for figuring this out.  NFS now works great on my TVIX-4100 and unRaid box.

unRAID settings: 

     IP Address = 192.168.0.110

     Disc Shares (NFS) = *(rw)

     share Name = Media

     Export NFS = mount 192.168.0.110:/mnt/usr/Media  192.168.0.103(ro)

     All SMB settings are left on Export read/write, should they be switched to Don't Export

 

Export NFS should be *(RW) as well...  The mount command there is mount a drive to unraid from the client...

 

Essentially you have to set the NFS permissions for both disk shares and user shares....  You can set them differently if you wish...

 

Here is the wiki

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ#How_do_I_configure_NFS_mounts.3F