[mythtv-users] FW: Help understand the interface of Myth Media & Video Gallery

[Anthony Rooney]

Hi Richard

I have been provided with a link to the documentation people where I will
feed back some possible enhancement to the wording of the steps recommended.
It certainly needs to explicitly make people aware that they need to have
permissions setup in advance for the MythTv user account (even though for
more astute users it would be obvious) and see if I can pick up cases where
some additional context can be provided to the instructions.  This might
help reduce the load on discussion forums like this where people are asking
questions about basic things like setting file location paths.

Users not used to Linux will not be naturally familiar with concepts of
setting up mounts points unless they are given explicit examples so there
are a few cases where this need to be set out more clearly.  Mapping network
drives in Windows is a similar concept however mounting locations like
drives is a little different.

Regards


Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Richard Morton
Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2011 7:10 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FW: Help understand the interface of Myth Media
& Video Gallery

Anthony,

I tend to agree with you; I suggest you do the following so that this is
resolved.
1. Could you update the Wiki to make it clear for other users setting up the
system what the likely causes are.
2. Suggest a change to the wording in the manual - which is not a wiki page;
I dont know who controls this 3. Raise an enhancement ticket on trac with
alternative wording that spells out the what the error could be caused by
such as: Unable to access location specified: /the/Path/specified/. Usual
causes for this
are: case sensitivity of directory structures; the path must be spelt
exactly the same starting from root with capitilisation matching exactly. or
Mythtv permissions group doesnt have access to the directory specified use
chmod -R <path> and chown -R mythtv:mythtv <path> commands to resolve.

R
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