How to make Kodi browse NFS share ?

[DeepAnger]

Hello,

I have recently received my first F5-221. I am uploading content from another home made NAS under OMV with rsync and it works great saturating the Ethernet Gigabit interface. The NAS has 5 disks in JBOD BTRFS, single volume.
I am able to access the public share with SMB but not with NFS. NFS is the recommended protocol for Kodi.

After selecting Browse for new share in Kodi, then NFS, I can see the IP adresses of my 2 NAS (OMV and TOS)
It can display /mnt/md0/public but cannot enter it.

What do I have to do in TOS to fix this ?

Regards.

[macmpi]

You may need to restart NFS service manually from TNAS web interface.

[DeepAnger]

Thank you for your help. I did and had the same result. Then I enabled NFSv4.1 Support (because that's the only other option there). Then I changed IP or segment allowed (put * instead of the local LAN). Then it worked !
I will have to (un)do these changes one by one to leave only the necessary one.

I forgot to mention that Kodi here is running in CoreELEC.

[macmpi]

Yes also had issue with address filtering: strange local domain do not work.
Do you also have to restart NFS manually as mentioned here: very annoying bug.

[DeepAnger]

I have had very few opportunity to restart the NAS yet because I am still filling it. But I haven't observed the bug you described (I will have to test it). What I have found is that the drives don't sleep and the fan speed speed goes near zero (while full speed is selected) and the drives temperature is 42°C. As soon as there is load (full gigabit copy to the NAS) fan speed goes to 2000 rpm as expected. The same drives in another home made NAS have their temperature 10° lower.

[TMSupport]

A new version expecting to solve the hibernation issue will be released soon, it's been in test now.

[DeepAnger]

Good to know. What about the erratic fan speed ?

[macmpi]

A new version expecting to solve the hibernation issue will be released soon, it's been in test now.

Hi, any update on this? Thanks

[gtrdriver]

Hi

I also have same issue. I'm not able to connect via kodi to the tos nas.

I even not see the tos up address at nfs searching at kodi.

In my network I also have a synology nas which kodi find at nfs search.

I enabled./ disabled nfs 4 service have changed permissions to.* and read./write


I can connect by other Linux clients using nfs but not by kodi

[macmpi]

First manually stop and start NFS service through NAS web interface, (once your shares are setup)
Then, in Kodi, you have to specify NFS share as follows (exemple for baseline public share):
nfs://NAS-IP:/mnt/md0/public

TOS (until 4.2.07 at least) may have issues starting NFS service at boot in some circumstances.
This will be hopefully fixed soon with an updated startup script...
Until then you may have to restart NFS services manually on NAS.