Re: how to use HD1000 play the media files by NFS?

David Wuertele <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical
Organization Berkeley Fluent Network
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Travis> I believe the HD1000 uses WINS (netbios) for network
Travis> discovery.  For a Linux/NFS server you can just put an entry
Travis> in the /etc/hosts file for your server if you want to access
Travis> it by name.  You'll need to do your mounts and mount messages
Travis> from the command line but these can be added to a file like
Travis> rc.local to happen automatically at boot.  The GUI won't find
Travis> NFS shares on its' own.

Everything you said is fine, except that the HD1K doesn't use WINS,
but rather NBT (netbios over TCP).  There actually is code in the
HD1000 to use a WINS server for netbios name resolution, but it is
currently disabled.

Dave
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