Network questions about the Q10 Pro

[LowDead]

Hi! New to the forum and have a couple of questions that I can't find satisfying answers to anywhere. Have searched several forums and product pages and decided to ask you mediaplayer experts instead. 

I'm interested in either the Himedia Q10 Pro or the Zidoo X9s. At the moment there seems to be more problems with the X9s than the Q10, so leaning more towards the Q10. I do want a box that can handle 10-bit and HDR. I have read up on wrappers and think I know enough about them to know that I need them to get full use of external player.

My big concern is that I haven't found an answer to mounting network shares. The most logical would be that Kodi behaves as normal and keep the shares I set up with it and then just passes the video via the wrapper to the external player. Now, I see a thread in here about a patch for persistent mountpoints, and that gets me thinking. Are these android boxes capable of handling big libraries with several different password protected shares, or would one with big libraries have to manually navigate each time to the right place in the library? What happens with scraping in Kodi?

I hope someone with knowledge can help me out with these questions. Thank you! 
// LowDead

[drabisan]

Samba: It's trivial if all your shares is accessible with the same username/password. If so...Kodi will navigate through library like it is a single location. If one share needs a different user/pass combination...well, I'm yet to find a workable solution; an identical user/pass with read-only will serve very well.
NFS: very much the same story. I mapped all my shares via NFS, guest read-only access, firewall-type of setting to restrict this access to Q10 Pro only. And that's it.

As a conclusion: it is very well designed for a single storage/single source for all shares. For more shares locations...well, it's not that optimized but there are workarounds if you can afford to take a small security risk.

[LowDead]

I see. So that means that it will work with a little tampering with the network. Thanks!

[Eriol]

I see. So that means that it will work with a little tampering with the network. Thanks!

Actually Kodi and HiMedia MediaCenter seems to be able to handle multiple network users but I don't know about the wrapper since I never tried this myself. Frankly I use NFS mountpoints because that is the easiest and most stable solution for me by far.

[Phil181]

I tried the "persistent mountpoints" patch and did not like the constant drive access it was performing....

The Q10 Pro certainly works fine with multiple NAS and USB directories.  The "glitch" with Kodi 16 and Android 7 was the duplicate drive names and is simply a matter of choosing the correct one (as the other does not work).

The great news is Kodi 17 under Android 7 names the drives correctly and I have just updated to Kodi 17 RC4.  It appears to have found around 3000+ movies in the Kodi library so all is well 
I use Samba and SMB shares.  The new firmware has sped up file transfers via the network as well (so the patch for this is now also redundant).  The internal hard drive is easily found on the Windows network 

[LowDead]

I tried the "persistent mountpoints" patch and did not like the constant drive access it was performing....

The Q10 Pro certainly works fine with multiple NAS and USB directories.  The "glitch" with Kodi 16 and Android 7 was the duplicate drive names and is simply a matter of choosing the correct one (as the other does not work).

The great news is Kodi 17 under Android 7 names the drives correctly and I have just updated to Kodi 17 RC4.  It appears to have found around 3000+ movies in the Kodi library so all is well 
I use Samba and SMB shares.  The new firmware has sped up file transfers via the network as well (so the patch for this is now also redundant).  The internal hard drive is easily found on the Windows network 

Are you saying that it's actually aren't any problem at all adding and scraping the shares with newest fw and Kodi 17RC4?

//LD

[Eriol]

I tried the "persistent mountpoints" patch and did not like the constant drive access it was performing....

I don't have problem with that, my drives are going to sleep without any problem and don't wake up till I start a movie from Kodi.

[LowDead]

One  more thing before pulling the trigger.. Are there a maximum number of shares that can be mounted simultaneously? I have appr.  15 different shares spread out on 8 NASes, both smb and nfs.

//LD

[HereIsTom]

As far as I know there is no limit at shares.