Open andreasn opened 6 years ago
I have no idea if this is even possible.
Quotes from the test:
It's possible to have NFS advertised on the local network using zeroconf/avahi:
…but it requires a bit of set-up on server side.
I keep this open as enhancement, but in general there's no way to discover NFS shares. Sure you can wrap some Avahi announcement around that, but that would be just for cockpit - nothing else supports that. NFS comes from an era when admins still knew the IP addresses of their servers by heart, and discovery wasn't a thing..
Note that Cockpit does discovery of exported paths once you have typed in the server address, by running showmount -e
. However, the default firewall rules block whatever showmount
needs so usually people see nothing.
Apparently Kodi does NFS browsing... https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=321545
However, a quick glance over the code Kodi uses (from libnfs) and I think it's probing the entire local network?
So I guess it scans the local network, and then does the equivalent of showmount -e
on the NFS servers it finds?
In the usability testing of NFS, we identified that all three out of four participants wished to browse the available NFS servers.