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I have checked. The device is never set offline. However it happened once, but it stopped happening when I made the top directory fully writable so LMCE could create files and directories under the share. But that was months ago. I strongly suspect this happens if you mount a network share from outside the LMCE subnet.

I just installed 0710B4 and I see the same behavior as RC1. I tried both NFS shares and Windows, and I see the same behavior when I add a share. I see only tv_shows_0 & _1 when I try to sort by Filename. Also, the share is gone after I reboot linuxMCE (I do it nicely by using the remote control). 

However, if I add the share, Windows, or NFS, and mark it Readonly, all the "flakiness" goes away. I reboot any number of times and the share always reappears. I haven't tested back on RC1, since it requires wiping everything off, but I'm willing to bet the behavior will be the same. And this doesn't allow me to sort on Filename either.

At this point, after all the testing we've done, I dare say this is a bug. I suspect that anybody accessing a Network Share outside the LMCE network would experience the same problem. Would it be possible for somebody to test this? On my setup, the file server where the share is, is also the network default gateway from which linuxMCE gets its external IP (192.168.1.2). My linuxMCE box has 2 cards. The internal one  is192.168.80.2 as expected and I haven't tampered with the DHCP settings on the router.

One last thing. Its not a problem, but its a bit obnoxious. I see all these never stopping messages:

May 24 08:53:39 neo mountd[5619]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.2:892 for /usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents (/usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents)
May 24 08:53:44 neo mountd[5619]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.2:990 for /usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents (/usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents)
May 24 08:53:50 neo mountd[5619]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.2:663 for /usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents (/usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents)
May 24 08:53:55 neo mountd[5619]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.1.2:761 for /usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents (/usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents)

if the share is NFS, or:

[2008/05/24 08:41:03, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
  192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) connect to service CleanTorrents initially as user nobody (uid=99, gid=99) (pid 27885)
[2008/05/24 08:41:03, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1230)
  192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) closed connection to service CleanTorrents
[2008/05/24 08:41:09, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1033)
  192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) connect to service CleanTorrents initially as user nobody (uid=99, gid=99) (pid 27889)

if it is a Windows (using samba) share. It would be nice to stop them, but I can live with them.

After installing RC1, I noticed that DVD audio and some videos (not sure which format, I have many) stopped working.  Audio is OK for rest of my videos (weird). After many trials, I decided to do a clean install of Beta4 and audio works fine. Is this a known problem?

[find /home/public/data -name "NFS*" -print]

Roy,

I did yet another fresh install (no keeping settings at all). I added the file server as you said below, but that was the original way I set it up. On the share, I notice you didn't ask me to specify NFS on "Filesystem", so I didn't. I got exactly the same result. On the NFS "flakiness", after I rebooted my system (with the remote, thru the advanced menu), it happened again! I be willing to connect the server to the dcerouter directly if I wasn't sure I don't have a network router problem. By the way, I can see the device mounted:

192.168.1.3:/usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents
                     1153741944 964777432 130357808  89% /mnt/device/38

Besides this didn't happened with Beta4. I'm actually tempted to go back to B4 and give it a try.

Finally I wanted to ask you. On a previous post you asked me to find /home/public/data -name "NFS*" -print. Well that didn't return anything (see my previous posting). I just ls -l /home/public/data and this is what I got:

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ ls -l /home/public/data
total 32
drwxrwsr-x 2 root public 4096 2008-04-29 21:53 audio
drwxrwsr-x 2 root public 4096 2008-04-21 13:00 avwizard-sounds
drwxrwsr-x 2 root public 4096 2008-04-29 21:53 documents
drwxrwsr-x 2 root public 4096 2008-04-29 21:45 other
drwxrwsr-x 2 root public 4096 2008-04-29 21:53 pictures
drwxrwsr-x 4 root public 4096 2008-04-21 12:47 samples
drwxr-sr-x 2 root public 4096 2008-04-29 21:53 tts
drwxrwsr-x 3 root public 4096 2008-04-29 21:53 videos

Is that what you expected?

Thanks,

Erasmo.

I played with the Apple II as well What about the audio problem? Is anybody else experiencing it? Is there a way I can provide you with info to diagnose it?

Roy,

I noticed that, some times, after rebooting, my NFS share just doesn't show any files at all. It takes about 2-3 OS reboots for this to happens. I also noticed that, when this happens, I can't see any files, but when I sort on Filename, I see the name of the share below tv_shows_1, but when I select it, its empty. At this point I'm forced to delete the share and re add it again. It just happened again when I turned on th machine to collect the info you asked for. Therefore I decided to collect two sets of data, one with the shared gone bad, and with the new share showing files in it.

This is when the share went bad:

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ find /home/public/data -name "NFS*" -print
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ find /home/public/data -name "nfs*" -print
/home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1/nfslockfile.lock
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ ls -n /mnt/device/
total 0
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ mysql -u root -D pluto_main -E -e "select * from Device where PK_Device='41'"
*************************** 1. row ***************************
              PK_Device: 41
               Disabled: 0
                FK_Room: NULL
        FK_Installation: 72635
           FK_DesignObj: NULL
            Description: CleanTorrents
      FK_DeviceTemplate: 1769
FK_Device_ControlledVia: 37
              IPaddress: 192.168.1.3
             MACaddress: 00:30:48:80:2E:7E
            IgnoreOnOff: 0
      FK_Device_RouteTo: NULL
          NeedConfigure: 0
                  State:
                 Status: **RUN_CONFIG**
               PingTest: 0
      EK_LicensedDevice: NULL
            IsNewDevice: 1
    ManuallyConfigureEA: 0
             Registered: 0
                 psc_id: NULL
              psc_batch: NULL
               psc_user: NULL
             psc_frozen: 0
                psc_mod: 2008-04-27 11:47:07
           psc_restrict: NULL
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ mysql -u root -D pluto_main -E -e "select * from Device where IPaddress='192.168.1.3'"
*************************** 1. row ***************************
              PK_Device: 37
               Disabled: 0
                FK_Room: NULL
        FK_Installation: 72635
           FK_DesignObj: NULL
            Description: neo
      FK_DeviceTemplate: 1837
FK_Device_ControlledVia: 1
              IPaddress: 192.168.1.3
             MACaddress: 00:30:48:80:2E:7E
            IgnoreOnOff: 0
      FK_Device_RouteTo: NULL
          NeedConfigure: 0
                  State:
                 Status:
               PingTest: NULL
      EK_LicensedDevice: NULL
            IsNewDevice: 1
    ManuallyConfigureEA: 0
             Registered: 0
                 psc_id: NULL
              psc_batch: NULL
               psc_user: NULL
             psc_frozen: 0
                psc_mod: 2008-04-26 23:48:09
           psc_restrict: NULL
*************************** 2. row ***************************
              PK_Device: 41
               Disabled: 0
                FK_Room: NULL
        FK_Installation: 72635
           FK_DesignObj: NULL
            Description: CleanTorrents
      FK_DeviceTemplate: 1769
FK_Device_ControlledVia: 37
              IPaddress: 192.168.1.3
             MACaddress: 00:30:48:80:2E:7E
            IgnoreOnOff: 0
      FK_Device_RouteTo: NULL
          NeedConfigure: 0
                  State:
                 Status: **RUN_CONFIG**
               PingTest: 0
      EK_LicensedDevice: NULL
            IsNewDevice: 1
    ManuallyConfigureEA: 0
             Registered: 0
                 psc_id: NULL
              psc_batch: NULL
               psc_user: NULL
             psc_frozen: 0
                psc_mod: 2008-04-27 11:47:07
           psc_restrict: NULL


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This is after dropping and re-adding the share:

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ find /home/public/data -name "NFS*" -print
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ find /home/public/data -name "nfs*" -print
/home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1/nfslockfile.lock
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ ls -n /mnt/device/42   # I clipped the output for obvious reasons, but it contains all my files
total 112
...
drwxr-xr-x  3 65534 65534  4096 2008-04-26 10:58 public
...
drwxr-xr-x  3 65534 65534  4096 2008-04-26 10:58 user_1
...
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ mysql -u root -D pluto_main -E -e "select * from Device where PK_Device='42'"
*************************** 1. row ***************************
              PK_Device: 42
               Disabled: 0
                FK_Room: NULL
        FK_Installation: 72635
           FK_DesignObj: NULL
            Description: CleanTorrents
      FK_DeviceTemplate: 1769
FK_Device_ControlledVia: 37
              IPaddress: 192.168.1.3
             MACaddress: 00:30:48:80:2E:7E
            IgnoreOnOff: 0
      FK_Device_RouteTo: NULL
          NeedConfigure: 1
                  State:
                 Status: **RUN_CONFIG**
               PingTest: 0
      EK_LicensedDevice: NULL
            IsNewDevice: 1
    ManuallyConfigureEA: 0
             Registered: 0
                 psc_id: NULL
              psc_batch: NULL
               psc_user: NULL
             psc_frozen: 0
                psc_mod: 2008-04-27 22:16:07
           psc_restrict: NULL
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ mysql -u root -D pluto_main -E -e "select * from Device where IPaddress='192.168.1.3'"
*************************** 1. row ***************************
              PK_Device: 37
               Disabled: 0
                FK_Room: NULL
        FK_Installation: 72635
           FK_DesignObj: NULL
            Description: neo
      FK_DeviceTemplate: 1837
FK_Device_ControlledVia: 1
              IPaddress: 192.168.1.3
             MACaddress: 00:30:48:80:2E:7E
            IgnoreOnOff: 0
      FK_Device_RouteTo: NULL
          NeedConfigure: 0
                  State:
                 Status:
               PingTest: NULL
      EK_LicensedDevice: NULL
            IsNewDevice: 1
    ManuallyConfigureEA: 0
             Registered: 0
                 psc_id: NULL
              psc_batch: NULL
               psc_user: NULL
             psc_frozen: 0
                psc_mod: 2008-04-26 23:48:09
           psc_restrict: NULL
*************************** 2. row ***************************
              PK_Device: 42
               Disabled: 0
                FK_Room: NULL
        FK_Installation: 72635
           FK_DesignObj: NULL
            Description: CleanTorrents
      FK_DeviceTemplate: 1769
FK_Device_ControlledVia: 37
              IPaddress: 192.168.1.3
             MACaddress: 00:30:48:80:2E:7E
            IgnoreOnOff: 0
      FK_Device_RouteTo: NULL
          NeedConfigure: 1
                  State:
                 Status: **RUN_CONFIG**
               PingTest: 0
      EK_LicensedDevice: NULL
            IsNewDevice: 1
    ManuallyConfigureEA: 0
             Registered: 0
                 psc_id: NULL
              psc_batch: NULL
               psc_user: NULL
             psc_frozen: 0
                psc_mod: 2008-04-27 22:16:07
           psc_restrict: NULL

Oh! And I just found out that DVDs play with no audio too. They used to play OK on beta4!

Could someone please verify this?

Hi. Took me a while to find the Volume control. I use a windows remote and the volume control has no effect. I had to press F8 on my keyboard to adjust it. No matter how I set it 100% 75% 50%. I still got no audio on some of my videos. The rest play fine. I baffled.

Dont worry about the / share. Its just me on my network at home. I'll remove since I no longer need it.

I saw the (async,no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash) in the article I used to setup my network share, but I thought that (rw,insecure) would be a superset. Anyways I just changed to /usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents 192.168.0.0/16(async,no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash), I dropped the share, recreated it, and quick reloaded the router.

Sorry, it made no difference. Sorting by Filename only shows tv_shows_1

would it be possible to setup a reproduction? Is there a way for me to collect diagnose information?

Roy, I already disable my firewall on the dcerouter, because I use the web admin from a different box. The gateway server (192.168.1.3) also has two network cards and the firewall filters the external network only, so I have no need to firewall the nfs ports.

I'm also aware that, because the file server is on a different network than the dcerouter, it wont be discovered until I added manually thru the web admin interface.

Do I still need to limit the NFS ports on the server and enable pass thru if nothing in the internal network is being filtered by a firewall?

I know this is not an easy challenge, so I sincerely appreciate you guys helping. I'm willing to try everything.

I running RC1. I used http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Howto:_Using_Network_Shares to create my NFS shares:

linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                65386088   6207180  55857472  11% /
udev                   1618568        60   1618508   1% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/05062c83-35b1-4ccc-b69d-0dcc8acbf99c
                      65386088   6207180  55857472  11% /
/dev/disk/by-uuid/05062c83-35b1-4ccc-b69d-0dcc8acbf99c
                      65386088   6207180  55857472  11% /dev/.static/dev
tmpfs                  1618568       272   1618296   1% /var/run
tmpfs                  1618568         0   1618568   0% /var/lock
tmpfs                  1618568     37924   1580644   3% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
tmpfs                  1618568         0   1618568   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  1618568       272   1618296   1% /var/run
tmpfs                  1618568         0   1618568   0% /var/lock
/dev/sda6              9608664   4674224   4446340  52% /mnt/recovery
192.168.1.3:/usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents
                     1153741944 964749496 130385744  89% /mnt/device/40
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ ls -l /home/public/data/other/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root public 15 2008-04-27 00:41 CleanTorrents [40] -> /mnt/device/40/

On the server, CleanTorrents looks like this:
drwxrwxrwx 27 erasmo erasmo 4096 2008-04-27 00:51 CleanTorrents/

My /etc/exports file:
/usr/fatboy                    *(rw,insecure)
/usr/fatboy/CleanTorrents                    *(rw,insecure)
/                               *(rw)



Here are screenshots of my device and my share definitions:
http://download.erasmix.net/linuxmce/Screenshot-1.png
http://download.erasmix.net/linuxmce/Screenshot-2.png


I have reinstalled RC1 at least 4 times since thursday. I've been forced to delete a share and re add it (all manually) after a simple reboot. I'm sure this is not normal. I'm at a complete loss. I appreciate any ideas. I still cannot see my videos when I sort on Filename.

One more thing. The server that has the NFS share, is also the gateway (192.168.1.3) of my network. My LinuxMCE box has 2 cards. One gets an IP Address using DHCP. The other is set by the installer to 192.168.80.1 and it runs DHCP on that interface: http://download.erasmix.net/linuxmce/Screenshot-3.png Could this be the root cause of the problem I'm experiencing?

Hi,

I just run the AV setup wizard and set the volume to 100%. I still have the same problem. Son videos play OK, others play with no audio. Geoffrey, how did you exactly adjust your volume? I tried setting my receiver to the maximum, but no luck.

Yes Collin, and I'm sorry. I made this post before your answer came in on the other topic. Right now I'm doing a clean install and will give it another shot. I sincerely appreciate your help

C'mon, you don't need me to jump in to code (I'm not a coder). For what I could read on this thread, there is plenty of people that wants to work on LinuxMCE. I bring more value as a user/tester  and even, yes, as an advocate 

Yes I have selected Filename in the SORT menu, but it goes from showing me all my files to just showing tv_shows_1. Nothing else. And I'm not going to put metadata on 1100+ videos.

Going back to my first topic on this email. A better media browsing facility is necessary. That is the main reason so many people bought a mac mini to use as a media player, because its damn easy to browse your media and play. You dont need any metadata. You dont need a complicated share structure. You just mount the share on the mac and navigate through the tree with FrontRow and a 6 button remote. Of course it required installing non-Apple codecs to play DivX files and this makes it crash some times. Not to mention that the SMB and NFS client libraries provided with MAC/OS sux big time, but that's another story

I have watched other threads on this forum and there is people asking for this. I think you should consider it. This is the most important feature LMCE is lacking so far.