[HELP] How to "browse" NFS/Network shares?

[kari1999]

Hello.

I'm speaking of the VLC Windows desktop version from here -> https://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.6/win3 ... -win32.exe

Release Notes :

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.6.html

3.0 Features

Core

• Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)

Protocols and devices

• Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing

I cant figure out for the life of me, how to browse the NFS share with this VLC desktop version? Can you help?

I have a NFS share that I can access and browse from other applications in Windows, but I don't know how to do it in VLC. Apparently the release notes reveals that it's indeed supported... but how to do it? Where to click exactly? Is there a feature in the menu somewhere? I looked around the menu and tried all day to find this option in VLC. I'm blind maybe.

Thanks

[nanomir]

Hi,

I'm often being confused about this, but just to confirm: there is actually code https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/access/nfs.c about NFS network access.

However, seemingly, NFS is just implemented only in the GUI of VLC for Android:



... although, as far as I can see in the code, there is also NFS mentioned in https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/services_discovery/microdns.c, which means NFS should/might be browsable via "mDNS Network Discovery" on VLC desktop (left sidebar, under "Local Network"), but haven't tested myself:

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The NFS plugin supports reading a file or enumerating a directory exported via NFS.

As for microDNS, I'd guess that either your NFS server is not advertising itself, or not on the same network segment, or there is a firewalling issue.