[mythtv-users] Recordings on smb nas and MythWeb

Jonas Urth Olsen jonasu at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 21:50:24 UTC 2008


Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Jonas Urth Olsen <jonasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have just moved all my recordings to a nas drive (Maxtor Central
>> Axis). I have some problems now. MythWeb won't sream, show the thumbnail
>> or let me download the recordings. everything else works, including my
>> remote frontend. The entry for mounting the drive looks like this in
>> /etc/fstab:
>> //10.0.0.200/Recordings /media/recordings cifs
>> uid=mythtv,gid=mythtv,password=XXXXX,username=mythtv
>>
>> The log files for mythtvbackend or Apache doesn't show anything strange.
>> Apache returns:
>> "Can't read 1003_20080810233500.mpg: Permission denied"
>> to the browser, then I try to download a recording.
>>
>> I have a feeling that it is a problem with file permissions. The
>> recordings are world writable. Im not sure Apache likes that. But I
>> can't find the options for cifs.mount to set file permissions.
>>
>> I run Ubuntu 7.10 and MythTv 0.21 from the backport repository.
>>
>> Is there anybody that can give me a hint?
>>
>> /Jonas
> 
> I don't know the answer to your question, but you shouldn't use
> password= in fstab. Use credentials=/root/credentials and make
> /root/credentials readable and writable only by root. Much more
> secure. fstab is world readable and therefore so is your password :)

You are right, but as i am the only one with login to the machine, and 
lazy as a am, i went for the easy way. I'll change it some day...

> Thinking on, the answer may lie in the permissions of
> /media/recordings BEFORE the NAS is mounted. Every time I set
> something like this up I futz around for a while before I get it
> right.

Yep. checket that. su to www-data (user running Apache), and I have no 
problems listing the recordings files.


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