Vero4K won't navigate in a NFS share from synology

[guillain]

I read a lot a subjects on the forum(especially: dillthedog wrap-up), but apparently I am missing something which makes it not running so I’m sorry to bother everyone again with this subject…

• Vero 4K with OSMC 2017.07-1 running Kode 17.3
• Synology DS1515+ running DSM 6.1.3-15152 Update 3

I just received the Vero4K and I am trying to configure it to connect to the synology shares to access Movies…
I succeed on getting the Vero4K to detect automatically the synology, he finds the shares but I am not able to “enter it”

I read a lot a subjects on the forum, but apparently I am missing something which makes it not running so I’m sorry to bother everyone again with this subject…

A bit of context:
The share is this one on the synology: /volume1/Films. This share is already daily accessed by an AppleTVv2 without any problems.

With the Vero, I detect the “/volume1/Films” but it won’t go further.

The share looks like this
/volume1/Films$ ls -l
drwxrwsrwx 3 guillain users 12288 May 17 2016 DivxsAnglais
drwxrwsrwx 11 guillain users 69632 Aug 20 09:44 DivxsFrancais
drwxrwsrwx 11 guillain users 20480 Jul 11 06:34 Documentaires

The movies are in the subfolders.

I base my tests according to this tutorial:

Using NFS with Synology

We’ve had a few issues recently on the Help and Support board with people having difficulties accessing their Synology DiskStations from OSMC via NFS. Not having a Synoogy box means that I’ve been flying blind when helping out and have had no real idea whether Synology’s version of NFS really is very quirky or if it’s just the more usual configuration issues getting in the way. So I enlisted the help of a friend who has a Synology box, albeit one not on the latest version of the DSM software, a…

1/ Step 1:
Control Panel → File Services
Enable NFS (v4 support not enabled)
Advanced:Settings: Apply default Unix permissions.

==> This is OK, not very complicated…

2/ I open “NFS Permissions” of the Share Folder “Films”
I set the following parameters:

• Hostname or IP*: 192.168.1.*
• Privilege: “Read only”
• Squash: “No mapping” (I tried other option but with no success…)
• Security: “sys”
• “Enable asynchronous” is ACTIVATED
• "Allow connections from non-privileged ports (ports higher than 1024) is ACTIVATED
• “Allow users to access mounted subfolders” is ACTIVATED

=> Saved.

3/ I remotely connect to the synology through SSH:

For info:
uid=1024(admin) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),101(administrators)
uid=1025(guest) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
uid=1027(UserAppleTV) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
uid=1026(guillain) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),101(administrators)

Then, since I could not navigate in the NFS share, I tried on the possibilities shown by dillthedog (Using NFS with Synology)

I did try a lot with uid=1025 & uid=1026 with no luck.
I tried twice with uid=1026 with no luck but maybe I didn’t choose the correct line…
Both user “admin” & “guest” are active and both have access to the share folder at least in read-only.

The AppleTV connects to the share with the user “UserAppleTV” without any problems.

When I finish doing the modification in vi of /etc/exports, I run “sudo exportfs -a”, check that is appears in “sudo exportfs”.
I do not reboot the Synology.
I do not reboot the Vero 4K, I just relaunch the procedure to add a new source…

If you need more info, please don’t hesitate to ask…

Could someone help me out in order for me to understand what I am doing wrong?
Thank you in advance

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

This will probably help:

No browsing of NFS shares with Synology

Hi there, I’m not able to browse NFS shares (Synology DS415+) on my brand new Vero 4K. Following settings have been made on my Synology already: steps according to: http://kodi.wiki/view/NFS#Synology and I’ve edited the /etc/exports: /volume1/video 192.168.178.9(rw,async,no_wdelay,insecure,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,sec=sys,anonuid=1025,anongid=100) 192.168.178.11(rw,async,no_wdelay,crossmnt,insecure,all_squash,insecure,sec=sys,anonuid=1024,anongid=100) sudo exportfs -ra 192.…

As reported on the kodi forums, setting the permissions for user and group to everybody; helps accessing the shares on kodi.

It also may be worth if you could post:

/etc/exports for the synology

&

showmount -e 192.168.1.* on the vero4k; * is the ip of the synology,

Thanks Tom.

[thansen_dk]

I think it is a permission issue, this helped me out.

No browsing of NFS shares with Synology

Here is what i did to get it working on a Synology DS716+II (8GB) DSM 6.1.1-15101 Update 2, with both Vero 4K and Raspberry Pi 3. First enable NFS and assign NFS permissions according to this link https://www.synology.com/da-dk/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/File_Sharing/How_to_access_files_on_Synology_NAS_within_the_local_network_NFS After that you have to change permissions for the folder via File Station. Open File Station, right click on the folder you want to use as NFS share and choose prop…

[dillthedog]

On first reading, one thing stands out:

@guillain

I set the following parameters:

• Hostname or IP*: 192.168.1.*

Wildcards don’t normaly work on IP addresses, so you should normall use 192.168.1.0/24 (CIDR) notation. (Of course, you say that the ATV successfully accesses the data!) I just checked the Synology site and it confirms my belief. https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/File_Sharing/How_to_access_files_on_Synology_NAS_within_the_local_network_NFS

Since you’re sharing /volume1/Films, it would have been more useful to show the output from ls -la, just to be sure.

Also, as Tom mentioned, please show us the /etc/exports file from the Synology box.

As an aside, there’s generally no need to enable "Allow connections from non-privileged ports (ports higher than 1024) " for Linux access, though I guess it could be required for the ATV

[guillain]

HI All,

Thank you for your help!

I got curious about dillthedog remark on the fact i set “192.168.1.*”. I changed it to “192.168.1.0/24”
I also desactivated the “Allow connections from non-privileged ports (ports higher than 1024)”
And everything started to work !!

I modified also the nonuid to set the same user as AppleTV. I don’t masterise unix enough to know what is the impact, nevertheless, it kept working.

So here is the version of /etc/exports:
/volume1/Films 192.168.1.0/24(ro,async,no_wdelay,crossmnt,all_squash,insecure_locks,sec=sys,anonuid=1027,anongid=100)

I am unsure what you guys meant by “setting the permissions for user and group to everybody”. Was to do a chmod 777 on all files?

Thank you

[dillthedog]

Excellent news!

@guillain

I am unsure what you guys meant by “setting the permissions for user and group to everybody”. Was to do a chmod 777 on all files?

I think it meant allow “world” read permission to the files.

Your /etc/exports file looks good and you should be able to see files that are:

• readable by user guillain (UID 1027); or
• readable by group users (GID 100); or
• readable by “the world”.

but 777 should work just fine.