In this screen we need to grand a hostname or IP-address to access the NFS export, in my case I allow all devices in my network so I placed a asterisk (*) in the hostname field. Select the folder you want to export using NFS and click ‘Privileges’, ‘NFS Privileges’ Ĭlick in the newly opened window on ‘Create’ to create a new export
Now the NFS service is enable we can share our media folders from the ‘Shared Folder’ section within the control panel Now we have to enable NFS from the control panel (‘Control Panel’ -> ‘Win/MAC/NFS’ -> ‘NFS Services’ -> ‘Enable NFS’) In the control panel we need to enable SSH access to the DS (‘Control Panel’ -> ‘Terminal’ -> ‘Enable SSH service’) So let’s get started, first we need to logon to the Synology Disk Manager ( and open the control panel. In my case (and I think for many users) this isn’t a problem. Please note that in this guide there’s no access control on the NFS exports, so within the local network every NFS capable device can access the shares with read/write permissions.
So in this post I’ll explain how to enable NFS on the Synology DS and connect these shares to XBMC. The NFS protocol has less overhead compared with SMB and therefor uses about 20% less CPU resources.
To solve this we can use NFS to share the media to XBMC. All my media is stored on my Synology Diskstation and accessible over the network using the SMB protocol. The disadvantage of SMB is that it’s very CPU intensive, and because the Pi has only a 700 MHz CPU core you may experience some hick-ups during video playback. This week I’ve posted about my new Raspberry Pi which is running XBMC.