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Mount Network Share
Kodi can natively mount SMB, NFS, SFTP, WebDAV (and more) remote filesystems (shares) to read media for playback, but many applications that write content, e.g. TVHeadend storing TV recordings, must write to "local" storage. Remote SMB and NFS shares can be "mounted" to the local filesystem using kernel mounts configured through systemd .mount files.
The following NAS configuration is used in the examples below:
NAS IP: 192.168.1.222
Username: nasuser1 
Password: 123nas
Share name: recordings
Full address to share: \\192.168.1.222\recordings
SMB Shares
1. Create the folder where the share should be mounted
Connect to your LibreELEC HTPC with SSH.
mkdir /storage/recordings
2. Create the systemd .mount file
IMPORTANT: The filename uses hyphens to separate elements of the fileystem path to the share mount-point, e.g. /storage/recordings will be storage-recordings.mount and sub folders, e.g. /storage/recordings/tv would be storage-recordings-tv.mount
Create the .mount file:
nano /storage/.config/system.d/storage-recordings.mount
Below is an example of the mount definition file for a Samba share:
[Unit]
Description=cifs mount script
Requires=network-online.service
After=network-online.service
Before=kodi.service
​
[Mount]
What=//192.168.1.222/recordings
Where=/storage/recordings
Options=username=nasuser1,password=123nas,rw,vers=2.1
Type=cifs
​
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
3. Things to edit
Address of your share. Remember to always use / slashes:
What=//192.168.1.222/recordings
Path where the Share should be mounted:
Where=/storage/recordings
Options:
Options=username=nasuser1,password=123nas,rw,vers=2.1
username= Username of your network share
password Password of your network share
rw Read/write access
vers=2.1 Version of the Samba protocol, 2.1 is supported since Windows 7 several other versions are supported too
4. Enable the mount
Finally we need to enable the mountpoint.
systemctl enable storage-recordings.mount
5. Reboot
Reboot your system to check if the mount works.
6. Helpful command for troubleshooting
Get status and error messages from the mount point.
systemctl status storage-recordings.mount
Remove mount point and disabling it.
systemctl disable storage-recordings.mount
NFS Shares
1. Create the folder where the share should be mounted
Connect to your LibreELEC HTPC with SSH.
mkdir /storage/recordings
2. Create the systemd definition file
Important: you need to use the filename for the definition file according to the folder where you want to mount your share .
In our case storage-recordings.mount represent path -> /storage/recordings.
If you like an subfolder storage-recordings-tv.mount represent path -> /storage/recordings/tv.
nano /storage/.config/system.d/storage-recordings.mount
Content of the definition file for a NFS share.
[Unit]
Description=test nfs mount script
Requires=network-online.service
After=network-online.service
Before=kodi.service
​
[Mount]
What=192.168.1.222:/usr/data2/video
Where=/storage/recordings
Options=
Type=nfs
​
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
3. Things to edit
Address of your share;
What=192.168.1.222:/usr/data2/video
Path where the share should be mounted:
Where=/storage/recordings
Options: At this section you are able to define specific NFS options, such as NFS version for example. In our example here, we don't need it and we are assuming you are using a NFSv3 share.
Type: Type=nfs
4. Start it for a test:
systemctl start storage-recordings.mount
Note: That's only a test and the mount won't be available after a reboot. To make it available after boot you have to "enable" the service first.
5. Enable the mount
If the previous test worked, then please enable the service via:
systemctl enable storage-recordings.mount
6. Reboot
Reboot your system to see if the mount is available after boot.
7. Helpful command for troubleshooting
Get status and error messages from the mount point.
systemctl status storage-recordings.mount
Remove mount point and disabling it.
systemctl disable storage-recordings.mount
Apple TimeCapsule
TimeCapsule devices share files using an Apple dialect of SMB that is not compatible with the Samba smbclient Kodi uses to connect to SMB shares. To access media on a TimeCapsule you can follow the steps described above for connecting to Samba shares with a systemd storage mount, but with one difference: the Options configuration must force SMB v1.0 and legacy NTLM authentication or the mount will fail. See below:
Options=username=MyUser,password=MyPass,sec=ntlm,vers=1.0
SMB v1.0 is widely considered to be insecure, but TimeCapsules no longer receive software updates and there is no alternative; SMB v2/v3 are not supported.
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