sharing USB drive on amahi machine across network

[mfacer]

I've got my amahi machine up and running. I have a USB drive plugged in to it which is mounted. I can view the contents in /media/Elements

I can see that through upnp as it's in the uShare config. BUT... I have a WDTV box which for some reason sees all my MKV files as MPG files. But that's not my issue...

...my issue is that I am trying to get the USB drive shared as a NFS now. From the WDTV I want to mount the drive on my amahi machine.

So my WDTV is 192.168.0.17 - I then want to mount on that device to the amahi USB drive. The amahi box is 192.168.0.99


Yet when I try

xmount 192.168.0.99:/media/Elements

it cannot find it. How do I get an NFS share set up properly from my amahi box?
Thanks for any info!

[toothandnail]

I've never tried to mount a removable drive as an NFS share, so some of this is theoriecal....

First, the mount command needs a type argument:

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mount -t nfs 192.xxx.xxx.xx:/media/<sharename>

If the nfs utilities are not running, it will also need arguments, the standard one being '-o nolock' to allow mounting without file locking.

You also need a destination for the mount - on another Linux machine it would be something like this:

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mount -t nfs 192.168.1.xxx:/media/<sharename> /mnt/<mount-point-name>

And you need to create the destination directory.

Next, you need to prepare the Amahi machine to share using NFS. So far as I know, this is not enabled by defaults. There are three files that need to be set up - /etc/exports, /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. There are a number of guides to setting up an NFS server around - have a look here:

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s03.html

You would also need to check whether the NFS daemon is running on the Amahi server, and, if not, make sure it is running and started on boot.

Paul.