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dgerson76
Jul 16, 2009Aspirant
Anyone using the new Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player?
This WD TV device lets your watch movies/pics from an external drive, and connects to your HDMI TV. Looks awesome, connects via USB. Great price, about $80. Checking to see if anyone has used thi...
bobinatcat
Oct 01, 2011Aspirant
dweeby wrote: I finally got the WDTV to work with the ReadyNAS Duo via NFS!
My settings are here, substitute your own configuration in the instructions:
[ ReadyNAS IP is 192.168.0.5 ]
[ NFS share is named MEDIA ]
[ I want the NFS share to show up as "ServerMEDIA" on the wdtv ]
done
I did the following:
In the ReadyNAS Share Listing for NFS:
- Set the Default Access to Read/Write (or Read-Only if wdtv is the only device to mount it)
- check the box "Enable root privilege-enabled hosts"
- and enter the IP address of the wdtv
- Click "Apply"
done
In the "Advanced Options" tab:
- set the share folder owner to "root"
- Set the rights to Read/Write or Read-Only
- Check the box marked "Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders in this share to the above settings..."
- Click "Apply" and wait for all the permissions to be changed.
cannot change the share folder group from "nogroup"
Reboot the ReadyNAS box. I think this is a critical step here, because I had no success until after I rebooted it.
On the wdtv:
- telnet into the wdtv, login as root telnet?!
- type showmount -e 192.168.0.5
- You will see something like:
Export list for 192.168.0.5:
/c/MEDIA (everyone)
- Note the /c/ at the front of the export.
- update your net.mounts file to have the following:
xmount 192.168.0.5:/c/MEDIA ServerMEDIA nfs
yeaaahhhhhhh, you got me at telnet...!
- cold boot the wdtv. Either type 'reboot' at the command prompt, or pull the power plug and put it back in.
Good luck!
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