[mythtv-users] Samba File shares to mythbackend

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 15:22:29 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Calvin Harrigan
<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>  I have a pretty decent mythtv setup on  a combination frontend/backend.
>  I've recently resurrected another frontend and have come across a simple
> enough problem and was looking for some advice.  It's setup so that the
> remote frontend can wake up the backend, that works great, the problem is
> that I'd like to have the media files (non-recordings) available on the
> frontend, so I shared them on the backend and mounted them on the front end,
> that also works great.  I've went as far as adding the mount to the fstab
> file.  Here's where the problem comes up, if the backend is already on
> everything works great, if the frontend has to wake the back end the shares
> doesn't get mounted because fstab is processed before the backend is booted.
>  I'm sure someone else has done something like this and I would appreciate
> any insight to this problem.  Thanks.
> BTW:
> Mythtv 0.23.1 on Gentoo 2.6.35-r4
>

Maybe autofs will help. I use that a lot with gentoo. I am a little
confused what you are trying to do however.

John


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