XBMC Missing NFS Support

[Stephen Morris]

XBMC for fedora as supplied by the RPM-fusion respository appears to not 
have support for nfs compiled into the rpm. Does anybody know why that 
is, or is it the case that in order to get it I have to compile libnfs?

regards,
Steve

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 10/22/2014 05:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>  Hi Michael,
>       Thankyou for your response. I do have the share mounted and XBMC doesn't
>  present that either. It presents every mount point I have except that one. 
You will need to navigate to that mount point. Start at root (/) and navigate 
down your tree. XBMC does not need any special support to see your mounted 
shares. The NFS support you are asking for is to access the shares without mounting.

[Stephen Morris]

On 10/23/2014 01:27 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>  On 10/21/2014 11:47 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > XBMC for fedora as supplied by the RPM-fusion respository appears to 
> > not have
> > support for nfs compiled into the rpm. Does anybody know why that is, 
> > or is it
> > the case that in order to get it I have to compile libnfs?
>
>  The library[1] that XBMC requires is not provided in Fedora, and I 
>  have no interest in packaging it. There is an open bug[2] against XBMC 
>  for this.
>
>  Why do you not mount the remote share? 
Hi Michael,
     Thankyou for your response. I do have the share mounted and XBMC 
doesn't present that either. It presents every mount point I have except 
that one.

regards,
Steve

>  [1] https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs
>  [2] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2667

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 10/21/2014 11:47 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>  XBMC for fedora as supplied by the RPM-fusion respository appears to
> not have
>  support for nfs compiled into the rpm. Does anybody know why that is, or is it
>  the case that in order to get it I have to compile libnfs? 
The library[1] that XBMC requires is not provided in Fedora, and I have no 
interest in packaging it. There is an open bug[2] against XBMC for this.

Why do you not mount the remote share?

[1] https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs
[2] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2667

[Jonathan Dieter]

Not sure why it's not enabled, but I would suggest opening a bug report 
at 
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component....

Jonathan

On 10/22/2014 07:47 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>  XBMC for fedora as supplied by the RPM-fusion respository appears to
> not
>  have support for nfs compiled into the rpm. Does anybody know why that
>  is, or is it the case that in order to get it I have to compile libnfs?
>
>  regards,
>  Steve
>
>
>

[Stephen Morris]

On 10/24/2014 12:07 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>  On 10/22/2014 05:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >      Thankyou for your response. I do have the share mounted and XBMC 
> > doesn't
> > present that either. It presents every mount point I have except that 
> > one.
>
>  You will need to navigate to that mount point. Start at root (/) and 
>  navigate down your tree. XBMC does not need any special support to see 
>  your mounted shares. The NFS support you are asking for is to access 
>  the shares without mounting. 
Sorry, what I was referring to was, when I select
Vidoes->Files->Add 
Video Source, and then select Browse in the dialog popped up, to add a 
new share point as the source, the resultant dialog has an entry for 
every mount point I have except the nfs mount point. Besides my nfs 
share, I have 3 mount points for fedora partitions, 3 mount points for 
Ubuntu partitions, and, 3 mount points for Windows partitions, and the 
navigation listed above shows all 9 of those mount points as well as 
normal 'root filesystem' and samba etc. I can navigate to the nfs mount 
point using 'Root filesystem', but why should I have to when it is 
already mounted? I would expect it to behave like all the other mount 
points and be listed as a mount selection.
As a side issue, XBMC/KODI for Android also show usb ports in its 
selection list as they are mount points under /mnt, will XBMC for Fedora 
not show any usb ports until something is mounted on them, and as Fedora 
mounts usb devices under /run/media, will XBMC detect those or only 
detect them if mounted under /mnt?

regards,
Steve