Cannot connect From my KODI to my FreeNAS

[falukky]

So i have Windows 10, Android TV (Sony) and FreeNAS.
They all connected to my home network.
This is my FreeNAS configuration:

From my Windows i can easily to my FreeNAS using this simple command: //10.0.0.24 and (after insert my user root and my password).
And also from my Kodi from the Windows machine i can add my NAS using this:

The problem is to connect from my Android TV.
After insert the same credentials return this returned message Connection time out, i try over and over include reinstall my Kodi and always the same, this refused to connect.

 

[southerner]

check this out: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=322742, freebsd is what Freenas is built from.

then check this out: https://www.plex.tv, download the plugin, configure the jail, pop some popcorn and leave the Kodi troubles behind. Just Plex up your freenas box and be done with it, it's supported.

 

[falukky]

Any chance to get it work with Kodi ? (maybe downgrade to old FreeNAS version ?)

 

[Alecmascot]

Any chance to get it work with Kodi ? (maybe downgrade to old FreeNAS version ?)

Which version are you on ?

 

[falukky]

11.2

 

[Alecmascot]

Please try it on a non-beta (production) release.

 

[falukky]

Same result with FreeNAS-11.1-U6

 

[Alecmascot]

SMB1 was disabled from U6 onwards. It may have a bearing. Search the forum for details
I use NFS in Kodi you could try that.

 

[falukky]

Inside Kodi NFS configuration under Server address i put my address: 10.0.0.24
What i need to specify under remote path ? (in my freenas NFS configuration i have /mnt/volume/volume-dataset under path)

 

[Alecmascot]

Yea, something like that. It's all documented in the kodi wiki.....

 

[falukky]

Please see this configuration:

i dont have this user and password fields enable:

 

[falukky]

This user and password fields that in gray and cannot be edit is only from my TY, from my Windows machine this works fine and i am able to connect into my NAS using NFS

 

[Alecmascot]

Set the dataset permissions to 777 and you will not need to authenticate

 

[falukky]

Where i need to set this value ? (and how ?)

 

[falukky]

??

 

[Alecmascot]

It is in the users guide....

 

[sretalla]

There was (and maybe still is) an add-on for KODI (although the name indicates it's from the older days) called PleXBMC, which may get you closer to the joy you're looking for.

<EDIT>

Perhaps this link will help to get what I mean:
https://github.com/Tgxcorporation/plugin.video.plexbmc

</EDIT>

 

[falukky]

I dont have Plex.
You mentioned that SMB1 was disabled from U6 onwards, maybe its better to downgrade to older version that still support SMB...
Which version is supported for sure ?

 

[Nasb Klamb]

I could not get my kodi installations to connect to my 11.2 FreeNAS box with the nfs://server/path type of source -- it would always complain about not being able to get the directory, etc. There are workarounds, but I found out how to make the "nfs://" access work.

The basic problem is that kodi tries to use a non-root id to access FreeNAS, and, by default, FreeNAS rejects non-root access. This is why I can mount (as root) a filesystem on my kodi boxes, but not from kodi itself, since kodi is running as non-root on these systems.

On a linux server, this can be fixed by using the "insecure" option in the /etc/exports file. On FreeBSD, the exports file does not appear to allow this option. However the FreeNAS settings for the NFS service allows you to set "allow non-root access". Restarting the NFS service, I can now use the "nfs://" syntax.