Windows 7 NFS client to pch A110 - Working!!

[johnpoz]

Ok quite some time ago I had asked for help on this -- see this thread

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=32733
Now it seems that thread is closed - I will prob put together a wiki article this weekend, anyway

I Never got a response - I dicked with it for a bit and never got it work, smb works, ftp is way faster to move files anyway, etc. etc. So forgot about it.

But yesterday I got a PM from zytham so it refired my curiosity - really have no use for NFS, but hey it should work right.. What was driving me nuts is my linux box could mount the pch nfs just fine, and w7 could mount my linux exports just fine..

Sometime ago I ran across this tidbit of info, and figured hey that might be the ticket?? But I don't recall if tried it and didn't work or never tried it??
http://blog.cuongnv.com/2009/11/windows-...-name.html

Anyway so yesterday after the PMs I got to playing with it again.. Would not work -- WTF, tried dicking with the exports on the pch, still not working -- WTF..

What I was using was
mount ipaddressofpch:/share x:
Cuz that works from the linux box just fine!! the /share

Kept getting that same 53 from before --- so then connected to my linux exports after making the reg changes - and sure enough I was connecting with the 1001 uid and gid -- so the reg change clearly works but still not working.

But this morning -- figured give it one more look over.. even tried the nfsaxe client for windows.. that freaking worked -- what the HELL! Slow as shit - but it worked, browsed fine mapped fine.. But man was it SLOW on file copies.. So I uninstalled that, reinstalled the built in client and gave it another go.. Still same freaking 53 error -- then it clicked what I thought was odd with the nfsaxe client is it mounted the share as HARD_DISK and thats what mount shows -- but I had tried it before I am sure of it using the full /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK in the mount command

But with the reg changes and the right command it works -- I will do some digging to verify if remove reg, etc. it doesnt work sort of thing but as of right now its working

So made the reg changes as above link
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default]
"AnonymousGid"=dword:000003e9
"AnonymousUid"=dword:000003e9

thats 1001 in decimal

used the full /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK path in the mount command.

Code:

C:\Windows\System32>showmount -e pch
Exports list on pch:
/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/
HARD_DISK                          192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

Then ran command with full path vs share and worked

Code:

C:\Windows\System32>mount pch:/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK x:
x: is now successfully connected to pch:/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK

The command completed successfully.

You will notice that is using the 1001 uid and gid

Code:

C:\Windows\System32>mount

Local    Remote                                 Properties
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
x:       \\pch\opt\sybhttpd\localhost.drives\H~ UID=1001, GID=1001
                                                rsize=32768, wsize=32768
                                                mount=soft, timeout=0.8
                                                retry=1, locking=yes
                                                fileaccess=755, lang=ANSI
                                                casesensitive=no
                                                sec=sys

I changed the client to use only UDP, and ran a speed test and got this

Code:

Total    Copied   Skipped  Mismatch    FAILED    Extras
  Dirs :         1         0         1         0         0         0
Files :         1         1         0         0         0         0
Bytes :  590.18 m  590.18 m         0         0         0         0
Times :   0:02:46   0:02:43                       0:00:00   0:00:02

Speed :             3782047 Bytes/sec.
Speed :             216.410 MegaBytes/min.

Ended : Thu Feb 24 07:52:41 2011

Which might be a bit faster than SMB.. But not much -- and FTP is way faster than that - like double.. I see 7MB with ftp.. So NFS is not really any better than SMB if you ask me -- but as said before it should work! And now it does -- yeah!! And thanks zytham for getting my curiosity going again.. I double check this with a clean windows 7 box, and then put together a wiki article for those that care

[nuke12]

Congrats. Glad you got it working.

Funny how little things like this can make a person's day.

[zytham]

Congrats and Thanks to johnpoz.
I will try my machine tomorrow.

I thought of using samba, ftp, or something instead. However, none of them can achieve NFS's speed performance. Refer to http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=5393.0

[nuke12]

(02-24-2011 05:42 PM)zytham Wrote:  Congrats and Thanks to johnpoz.
I will try my machine tomorrow.

I thought of using samba, ftp, or something instead. However, none of them can achieve NFS's speed performance. Refer to http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=5393.0

Those results are for a different media player. Read all of Johnpoz' post. Very little difference between SMB and NFS on the PCH units. FTP is way faster then both.

[johnpoz]

Ok looks like they reopened the other thread - should prob merge these.. Anyway - what I thought was the fix seems not.. But I was able to get it working again - but I just do not understand why.. So I pulled out what I had put in the wiki article I started until I can figure out what is going on.

What I thought was the fix by setting reg entries for anonymousUid and Gid to 1001 did not fix it -- but install of nfsaxe client, mapping drive once and then disconnect and remove nfsaxe client.. Now the native client works -- so at a complete loss to why.

but now im determined to figure out a simple way to get it working, that I can document - even if this is install eval nfsaxe client and then removing it Which seems to be it currently - WTF??

If anyone is a NFS guru could sure use some exp with nfs, since mine is very very limited - it normally just works in the linux world

Ok -- some more info.. it now works just using :/share in mount command as well -- after install and removal of nfsaxe client -- WTF??

More info: Ok I rebooted my pch, and now the client that was working now no longer works.. How much you want to bet if I install nfsaxe client and map - that it will work again.. So its prob something on the pch that is keeping a session open or remembering connection somehow? Again really could use some nfs guru help here

I can provide sniffs of the traffic, anything at all that will help in understanding why its not working??

Ok I posted up the workaround I have to the wiki - you can find it here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...S_Windows7

[zytham]

(02-24-2011 05:49 PM)nuke12 Wrote:  

(02-24-2011 05:42 PM)zytham Wrote:  Congrats and Thanks to johnpoz.
I will try my machine tomorrow.

I thought of using samba, ftp, or something instead. However, none of them can achieve NFS's speed performance. Refer to http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=5393.0

Those results are for a different media player. Read all of Johnpoz' post. Very little difference between SMB and NFS on the PCH units. FTP is way faster then both.

Yes, thanks