[Solved] First steps with NFS (wiki not enough)

MoonKid · July 9, 2017 at 9:00 PM

I know the Wiki-Page about the topic. Is there ~~better~~another one?

There is no info about where the config should be written. And no info about if it is able to run Kodi with a different uid. Because with LibreELEC 8 and Kodi 17.3 it looks like that kodi runs as "root" (uid=0).

Do I have to give Kodi root-rights on my NAS to access an NFS-share from there? I won't.

Or can I modify the Kodi users itself?

Fredouye · July 9, 2017 at 9:50 PM

Hi

SMB/NFS shares are defined in /storage/.config/system.d (take a look at nfs.mount.sample).

I'm using NFS v3 with these options :

Options=hard,sync,intr,rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768

You only need to give Kodi R/W rights if you want to be able to delete files from Kodi, or if you want Kodi to download subtitles where your videos are stored

MoonKid · July 10, 2017 at 10:38 PM

Kodi is "root" (uid=0).

But on my NAS is a specialised user called "media" (uid=1001) and a group "media". I created them. It is part of my concept. Kodi need to adapted to it but I don't know how.

subzero79 · July 11, 2017 at 12:14 AM

In the nfs server use the option for the share all_squash,anonuid=1001,anongid=Thegidforgroupmedia

That should force kodi (running as root) to have permission using those u/gid

Or you can also just use no_root_squash in the server

**DaVu** · July 18, 2017 at 8:17 AM Official Post

Topic is solved as the user is crossposting on german kodinerds forum.