Nifty way to set up Direct Paths

[ghost]

Not an issue, but I discovered a pretty cool way to set up direct paths, but it only applies to a specific situation: Linux on both server and client, and every library on the same mount point. The idea is, say you have your movies in /mnt/media/Movies and TV shows on /mnt/media/TV Shows. You can use NFS to serve /mnt/media, then mount that on the client at the same exact path (using fstab for example). You could then have things set up like this: i.e. empty strings everywhere. Cool ain't it?

[bdpna]

Thanks for sharing this. You're thinking like I am, I'm trying to get this working as well as MySQL but the fact of the matter is my home uses Nvidia Shield Android Boxes, Fire TV boxes, Pis, and PCs, all with Kodi on there. And I don't think they play with SMB or NFS very well. MySQL always just worked. But I'd really rather get this working instead.

[ghost]

You can mount SMB or NFS inside Kodi, on any platform. Try that if you haven't already.

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Thanks for sharing this. You're thinking like I am, I'm trying to get this working as well as MySQL but the fact of the matter is my home uses Nvidia Shield Android Boxes, Fire TV boxes, Pis, and PCs, all with Kodi on there. And I don't think they play with SMB or NFS very well. MySQL always just worked. But I'd really rather get this working instead.

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[bdpna]

The mounts seem to work, using sources.xml works, but PKC is having trouble talking to them with direct paths for some reason. Croneter gave me a good idea to try over in the main plex forum thread. Thanks again for sharing this too.

[ghost]

No problem! Good luck.

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The mounts seem to work, using sources.xml works, but PKC is having trouble talking to them with direct paths for some reason. Croneter gave me a good idea to try over in the main plex forum thread. Thanks again for sharing this too.

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[daveftw84]

im thinking of setting up a apahce server and pointing it to my mnt folder. use https

[kocane]

I just switched from "add-on" to direct paths yesterday, doing it by entering the SMB path. Is using NFS mounts faster than SMB?

[ghost]

Yes it should be.

[kocane]

I'll try it out, thanks!

[DeplorableBear]

I did a similar thing with an iMac last year. I had three external hard drives, so I mounted them all from /Volumes: /Volumes/A /Volumes/B /Volumes/C

then later on, I read that you were not supposed to be able to do that on a mac. I also had one of those buggy versions of samba, so I was using SMBU, so I'm not surprised.

[ghost]

is webdav supported? what protocols are supported?

[croneter]

Good news: It's not a matter of what PKC supports, but what Kodi offers. See here: https://kodi.wiki/view/File_sharing

Webdav is supported by Kodi and should work with PKC