Which protocol to share movies to Vero/OSMC?

[rjalex]

I have a new Raspberry 4 with Rasbian Buster and am transferring all of my movie files onto its ext4 mounted disk.

What is the most efficient protocol to share the movies over to my Vero 4K+? Samba ? NFS? Other?

Thanks a lot

[bmillham]

NFS will give you the best performance. And we suggest that you use system mounts (via fstab or autofs) instead of using Kodi mounts.

[dwardo5]

Regarding fstab mounts, do you have a document or FAQ which can guide users in what command to use for SMB vs NFS mounts?

[Tom_Doyle]

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…

[bmillham]

Have a look at the wiki on this forum. You will find serveral posts about fstab and autofs and SMB vs NFS.

[dwardo5]

Thanks Tom and Brian. Very useful info in there. One thing I didn’t see was if FQDN was supported for server name - I’d rather not hard code IP, but I do realize if my DNS server borks then name resolution wouldn’t be able to map it. Thoughts?

[bmillham]

Yes, you can use the name instead of IP, i.e. myserver.local I use this for my setup and have never had issues. It just depends on your DNS server/router.

[rjalex]

Sorry guys. Where’s the “wiki on this forum?”
This is what I see on my Vero:

osmc@osmc:~$ showmount --exports 192.168.1.74
Export list for 192.168.1.74:
/home/bob/rtorrent 192.168.174.0/24,192.168.1.0/24

this is what I have in Vero’s /etc/fstab:

192.168.1.74:home/bob/rtorrent /mnt/rpi4_movies nfs x-systemd.automount,noauto,user,rw 0 0

and this is the error I get:

osmc@osmc:~$ mount /mnt/rpi4_movies/
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.1.74:home/bob/rtorrent

[modul8]

Wiki - OSMC

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@rjalex

192.168.1.74:home/bob/rtorrent /mnt/rpi4_movies nfs x-systemd.automount,noauto,user,rw 0 0

You are missing the / infront of home

[rjalex]

Thanks modul8. If I search for NFS or fstab or autofs in the little search box on the wiki page you’ve suggested I get no results. eg. Dropbox - File Deleted

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@rjalex

If I search for NFS or fstab or autofs in the little search box on the wiki page you’ve suggested I get no results.

File sharing with a NAS, media server, windows share or other device

Whether you already have a media sharing system on your network or are setting one up for the first time the options can be bewildering. To stream high-quality video you will want the fastest possible connections. Unfortunately, the easiest systems to set up are also the least efficient so some effort is needed to get the best performance. Here are some recommendations. This assumes you have already set up the wired or wireless LAN connections between the server where you store your media an…

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…

[rjalex]

OMG you are right (as almost always ). Tired eyes.

Mount works but the filesystem has UID=1001 and GID=1001. tried using the uid=osmc,gid=osmc but they give an error.

Also the mount does not happen automatically on reboot.

Solutions? Thank you

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@rjalex

Also the mount does not happen automatically on reboot.

Well you wrote noauto

@rjalex

Mount works but the filesystem has UID=1001 and GID=1001. tried using the uid=osmc,gid=osmc but they give an error.

How is the setting on your server side? root_squash enabled?

[rjalex]

My RPi server has the following /etc/exports content:

/home/bob/movies 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

while my Vero’s fstab is as follows:

192.168.1.74:/home/bob/rtorrent /mnt/rpi4_movies nfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,rw 0 0

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@rjalex

My RPi server has the following /etc/exports content:

Is it OSMC on there?

@rjalex

while my Vero’s fstab is as follows:

Read the how to to understand the right commands for automount

File sharing with a NAS, media server, windows share or other device

Whether you already have a media sharing system on your network or are setting one up for the first time the options can be bewildering. To stream high-quality video you will want the fastest possible connections. Unfortunately, the easiest systems to set up are also the least efficient so some effort is needed to get the best performance. Here are some recommendations. This assumes you have already set up the wired or wireless LAN connections between the server where you store your media an…

[rjalex]

No the RPi is a Raspbian (Buster) multipurpose server. Vero is OSMC.

So you suggest using autofs INSTEAD of fstab, right?

Thank you very much.

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@rjalex

So you suggest using autofs INSTEAD of fstab, right?

Well not directly as it also should work with fstab (I only saw not the automount part in your fstab). But yes I generally suggest autofs as more stable solution.

For your uid/gid issue read up here. Unless you have matching ID’s on the server (which would be the case if it is OSMC you would need to do mapping.

NFS: Overview and Gotchas

[rjalex]

Will study. Thanks a lot. Take care.