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Problem Accessing Files from Boxee Box
My NAS is a ReadyNAS Pro (RNDP6000) with 3 x 1 TB hitachi ultrastar (HUA722010CLA330) drives and a 1.5 TB seagate (ST31500341AS) drive setup in RAID config using X-RAID2. My switch is a NETGEAR ProSafe GS108T-200NAS set to default settings. I haven't had a chance to start messing with VLAN settings or anything else. There is a bit of a learning curve on my part. I also have a Boxee Box running the latest software/firmware.
My library of music and movies are stored on my NAS.
My movies load up in the Boxee library and my Boxee Box recognizes them with no problem. My problem starts when i start to play a movie and then after about 1 minute of play time, the movie errors out and i get sent back to the movie library screen. I ran a bunch of different movies and all acted the same way. Pretty darn annoying.
BBox is connected to the NAS using samba. My NAS shows up as a samba drive when scanned under "File Sources" as smb://... in Boxee so i am sure of this.
At the beginning I had uPnP activated under discovery services but i deactivated it but it still didn't work. I did notice that the connection to my NAS was stalled for about 30-60 seconds when i tried playing a movie and was looking at the different options under administrator settings on my laptop. This occurs every time i try to play a movie right before it errors out. I can replicate this every time.
Under standard file protocols for my NAS i have CIFS as the only one activated. The others (NFS, AFP) are deactivated. I have a MacBook, a PS3, and a Windows desktop, that all access the NAS and i thought this was the best option (correct me if i am wrong). I also have the Bonjour service active. Could only having CIFS active be the problem?
I tried to share a movie wirelessly from my MacBook Pro to my Apple Airport base station, through the Netgear switch, to the wired Boxee and had no problem playing a 1080 HD movie. I have also been able to play a couple of titles off a thumbdrive without a problem so my problem definitely seems to be the NAS. I had no issues fast forwarding the movies and playing the movies i was accessing from my MacBook and my thumbdrive on the BBox. And i know the wireless connection is slower than the wired network connection.
So everything points to my NAS causing the issues. Any thoughts?
This is killing me!!!!!
My library of music and movies are stored on my NAS.
My movies load up in the Boxee library and my Boxee Box recognizes them with no problem. My problem starts when i start to play a movie and then after about 1 minute of play time, the movie errors out and i get sent back to the movie library screen. I ran a bunch of different movies and all acted the same way. Pretty darn annoying.
BBox is connected to the NAS using samba. My NAS shows up as a samba drive when scanned under "File Sources" as smb://... in Boxee so i am sure of this.
At the beginning I had uPnP activated under discovery services but i deactivated it but it still didn't work. I did notice that the connection to my NAS was stalled for about 30-60 seconds when i tried playing a movie and was looking at the different options under administrator settings on my laptop. This occurs every time i try to play a movie right before it errors out. I can replicate this every time.
Under standard file protocols for my NAS i have CIFS as the only one activated. The others (NFS, AFP) are deactivated. I have a MacBook, a PS3, and a Windows desktop, that all access the NAS and i thought this was the best option (correct me if i am wrong). I also have the Bonjour service active. Could only having CIFS active be the problem?
I tried to share a movie wirelessly from my MacBook Pro to my Apple Airport base station, through the Netgear switch, to the wired Boxee and had no problem playing a 1080 HD movie. I have also been able to play a couple of titles off a thumbdrive without a problem so my problem definitely seems to be the NAS. I had no issues fast forwarding the movies and playing the movies i was accessing from my MacBook and my thumbdrive on the BBox. And i know the wireless connection is slower than the wired network connection.
So everything points to my NAS causing the issues. Any thoughts?
This is killing me!!!!!
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Slack wrote:
What gave me that impression was the ReadyNAS it'self..Enable jumbo frames. Jumbo frames allows combining of multiple packets into one large packet, reducing network overhead and increasing large-packet transfer performance. When a jumbo frame-capable switch is used, and client systems have jumbo frame-capable network controllers, you can enable this option. Make sure the client network driver is set up for jumbo frame support.
NFS and Jumbo frames are entirely unrelated topics - NFS is a higher level network protocol than Ethernet, like CIFS and AFP. Jumbo Frames refers to configuration of Ethernet frames used to carry the traffic, be it via NFS, CIFS or AFP protocols. (I overlooked the comment advising to also disable Jumbo frames when enabling NFS - I have no idea why that would be suggested)
Therefore enabling NFS would have no adverse performance impact - probably quite the opposite as it tends to be the most efficient protocol to use between two linux based systems like your ReadyNAS and Boxee system
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