Issue with path substitution

[angry.sardine]

If you’re concerned about network performance (and especially if you’re resigned to using path substitution anyway) you might want to look into using OS-level mounts by means of fstab or autofs.

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

Once the remote share is mounting correctly, you then set up the Kodi source as being in “root file system” - the remote folder behaves like a local one.