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NASty wrote:

Also, based on your understanding, can you advise if kernel nfs requires statically-compiled kernel support or simply a nfsd.ko module to be loaded dynamically?

My experience is that you need a new kernel with nfs support. I tried with the separately compiled kernel modules, and although it basically worked, the box crashed very often.

PS: The Conceptronic firmware kernel has NFS support enabled :)

Are there major differences in functionality between the Conceptronic 1.03 and DLink 1.05 firmwares, besides the kernel NFS support? Is the flashing process reversible to a DLink firmware?

unfsd and nfsd is working great with CH3SNAS but also with CFULLHDMA which is similar devices as PopCornHour .. so I think PH has a not so good NFS implementation.

Up to know I have not received any person complaining (other than myself) that NFSD / UNFSD was not working well ;-)

drak0 wrote:

This doesn't quite solve the NFS issue, but this is what I use when I need NFS speed for HD vids...  I use llink.

http://www.drak0.com/2008/06/20/llink-2 … he-dns323/

It's been working great for me... let me know if you have any issues

Thanks. I might just try that... You mentioned there was an issue with VIDEO_TS folders needing to click on the individual .IFO files... is this still an issue in the latest version?

I've installed llink 2.08 and mostly got it to work... streaming performance is definitely much better than samba. However, the breaker for me is that my DVDs are all ripped into VIDEO_TS folders and llink could not have my popcorn hour automatically play the DVD when clicking on the ripped folder, no matter what modifications I did to llink.conf.

Does llink not support this feature at all, or is it broken only on the DNS-323 build? How about DVD menu support?

If this doesn't work out, I suppose the only solution left is to update the DNS-323 to the conceptronic firmware... sigh.

OK, thanks to everyone here especially sbrundell, I finally decided to make the leap to the Conceptronic firmware and got nfsd-tcp(udp had some strange problems) to work with my popcorn hour. llink was decent but didn't work as well with my mostly VIDEO_TS-ripped DVDs.

I'm definitely a happier man now.

Are you connecting using the access page on the popcorn hour (via remote and TV) or are you doing it via a script in a telnet session, or via a cgi script?  I found things do not work too good if you use the NMT interface.  I started using a cgi script to mount things, but that got inconvenient, so I wrote a fun_plug for the popcorn hour, instead.

The only thing major that I changed on my DNS for NFS was to set the NFS shares to read only.  This way things cannot get deleted with the remote control on the popcorn hour.  Anyway, the fun_plug I made uses a copy of busybox that someone compiled for the popcorn hour (I do not know who it was, or I'd give that person credit here).  It sets up a space on the ram drive, copies and links busybox, then runs any executable scripts in the directory.  (Thanks fonz for the idea, it works similar to your ffp.)  I have it set up to mount 2 NFS shares on 2 different DNS-323s automatically.  Subfolders work no problem. 

There are a few things, though.  It requires a hard drive with the NMT programs installed (samba, etc).  This is where the fun_plug needs to be loaded.  It also is not always the easiest to install.  Due to a few limitations to the tar binary that was compiled for the popcorn hour, it is not easy to provide a tarball.  I'm still working on it, though.  I also wanted to be able to install it via a USB stick, or over a share via cgi script, but you get locked deep in the filesystem tree and I can't get out with the script.  I'm still working on that, also.  I'm not a programmer, so I really don't know the tricks. 

Anyway, if anyone is interested, I can get it together.  I know it works on both A-100 and A-110.  There are a few different options for installation depending on which model you have.  Also, anytime the firmware and NMT programs are updated, at least 1 file will need to be fixed, or the fun_plug will not load.  This is because the script that invokes it will get overwritten.  As long as you update the file before rebooting (after the NMT program update) there is no issue.  The issue is only if you reboot first, then the telnet access will be lost.

knireis wrote:

NASty wrote:

OK, thanks to everyone here especially sbrundell, I finally decided to make the leap to the Conceptronic firmware and got nfsd-tcp(udp had some strange problems) to work with my popcorn hour. llink was decent but didn't work as well with my mostly VIDEO_TS-ripped DVDs.

I'm definitely a happier man now.

I have a CH3SNAS with fw 1.05 and enabled nfs via the funplug 0.5 unfsd.sh script. Still i don't get subfolders even with the -tcp option.
Did you make any changes in the unfsd.sh script? Or did it work 'out of the box'?

You've got to be using the kernel nfs (nsfd.sh), which is a feature available on the conceptronic and not the dlink firmware. unfsd.sh starts the user-space nfs daemon.

One more question, if i set ro in stead of rw in the /etc/exports file then the popcornhour sees the files but does not play them. It is not a big issue but i thought it would be safer to use just ro.