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I'm trying to get NFS to work on my B2. I've added the the archived 'etch main' and 'etch non-free' packages to my sources.list as well as the security 'etch/updates main' package.

However, since the security support for Debian 4.0 has been terminated I'm not able to get any security updates... The other updates seems to be installing fine when running 'apt-get update'. What to do? Is it possible to get the security updates for etch from somewhere else?

Will this mean that I will never get NFS to work on B2 before Excito releases a fully new lenny-installation (or newer) or is it possible to get NFS running without the updates?

don't worry about security updates for NFS when you are running a fully trusted home environment.

Got it working now without the security updates!

Well, it seems that I was a little too fast there... It does work but the NFS performance is terrible.

This is how my share look like in the /etc/exports file:

/home/storage/media/movies 192.168.10.0/24(ro,root_squash,async,no_subtree_check)

The directory is reachable via NFS from both my WDTVLive media player as well as from my PC (tried to mount it with "Client for NFS" in Vista). However, on the WDTVLive I can't play a 1080p file from the NFS share without extreme video stuttering after a few seconds. I have the same directory as a Samba share and the same movies that stutter with NFS plays fine with Samba... Strange, to say the least. What am I doing wrong here?

Edit: Checked the mounts on the WDTVLive with "mount -t nfs" and I then saw that the Bubba was mounted with udp and read and write sizes 32768. I don't see why that would not work but I changed it to tcp and read/write size 16384 and now everything plays fine. The error was on the client side, i.e. the WDTVLive. I'm a happy camper again!

Great. I think this thread is about the same issue.