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Narushia on Oct 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Netwo...

I looked into this a while ago and was surprised to find that no file explorer on Android seems to support it[1]. However, I did notice that VLC for Android does support it, though unfortunately only NFSv3. I was at least able to watch some videos from the share with it, but it would be nice to have general access to the share on Android.

[1] Of course, I didn’t test every single app — there’s a bucketload of them on Google Play and elsewhere…

sunshine-o on Oct 6, 2025 [–]

Yes ! they are using a a client library for that https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs

Narushia on Oct 6, 2025 | [–]

Interesting, the readme for that library says that NFSv4 is supported. So that likely means that VLC is doing something wrong on their side, because only NFSv3 works?

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