[mythtv-users] Optimising a diskless frontend

[Matthew Mc Clement]

Simon Tennant wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:05:32PM +0000, Matthew Mc Clement wrote:
>>> Should I abandon NFS all together and look at Samba instead?  Anyone
>>> running with a diskless samba frontend?
>> I just switched the recordings mount to Samba and had a marked increase 
>> in performance. Moving around the recordings screen is much snappier now 
>> and doesn't involve a 5-10 second pause I was getting with NFS when 
>> changing recording groups.
> Incidentally how are you automatically mounting your Samba shares?  Is
> there as way to get around passwords in fstab?  Guess there is always
> Kerberos but the thought of having to set that up on my mythtv box just
> to run a samba share is not one I relish.

Export shares as guest only(or guest ok) and set the guest user to the 
same uid as the mythtv user(assuming your running it as non-root). 
mount.(cifs|smb) allow you to then mount the shares as guest without 
using a password.

Matt