NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have NASLite2 CDD running on a 500Mhz PC with 2 500G drives. I use this as a home video server over a 100Mb network. This works very well from my Windows XP machines reading the SAMBA shares. My problem is using Debian Etch.

I mount the drives as NFS shares with
mount -t nfs 192.168.2.30:/export/Disk-0 /mnt/share

When I try to access the mpg or vob files with say MPlayer or Noatun, the program freezes after a while, particularly when I move to a different position in the video file. Konqueror also freezes when I then try to open /mnt/share.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

SAMBA shares seems to work better however I would think that NFS is the faster system to use from a Linux OS.

Regards,
Stefan

I use the NFS exports with Slackware without a problem. Works fine through both mount and Konqueror. My guess is the problem is with your Debian. Did you check to see if you can transfer files using NFS. I wouldn't just go by what your media players are doing. It could be a lot of things other than NFS on Naslite.

Thanks for the reply. The same thing happens when I copy a large file from the command line. Smaller files copies without problems. Once the system hangs, even doing a "cd /mnt/nfs_share" from a different console causes that console to stop responding.

Regards,
Stefan

Not a clue dude. I tried it with Gentoo and Ubuntu too. In all cases NFS seems to do as it's supposed to. I'm using 2.06 but 2.05 was working fine too prior to that. Can't you try NFS form another box and see if the same thing happens?