[mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder

Anthony Rooney rooneyo at iinet.net.au
Tue Feb 15 13:10:22 UTC 2011



> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of John Pilkington
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2011 9:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder
> 
> On 15/02/11 08:36, Anthony Rooney wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> >> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of jedi
> >> Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 12:11 AM
> >> To: Discussion about MythTV
> >> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:53:51PM +1030, Anthony Rooney wrote:
> >>> Raymond
> >>>
> >>> What syntax do you use to point to a location on another network PC
> >>> with Myth Video?
> >>>
> >>> For example if I had video files stored on another PC on my LAN
> >>> named Capture in a folder named Movies how do I define this in Myth
> Video?
> >>
> >>       You mount that remote folder as a part of the local filesystem
> >> and
> > treat it
> >> like any other local folder.
> >>
> >> [deletia]
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> > On advice from this forum I sought to mount the remote folder using
> > CIFS as I was told that this was better than using SAMBA.
> >
> > I sought to mount the remote folder MusicFilms, which resides on a
> > Win7 machine named POSSUM mapped to my  MythTv box file system at
> the
> > location /mnt/MusicFilms
> >
> > I added the following to my fstab file having created a .credentials
> > in my home folder with my windows user name and password:
> >
> >
> >   //possum/MusicFilms	/mnt/MusicFilms	cifs
> >
> rw,uid=anthony,gid=workgroup,fmask=0117,dmask=0007,noauto,cred=/ho
> me/a
> > nthony
> > /.credentials
> >
> > I also tried the following line to see if I could mount using SAMBA
> > which I know is running on the machine
> > # //possum/MusicFilms	/mnt/MusicFilms	smbfs	guest	0
> 	0
> >
> > Note via the Ubuntu "Places" file system interface I can browse and
> > connect to this share and mount it without any problem however I have
> > no way of making the mapping persistent.
> >
> > I would be interested in knowing where in the Linux file system does
> > it place the remote folder if I user the Network interface of Ubuntu
> > and browse to the remote folder and chose Mount from the dropdown
> > command list?  A representation of the remote folder appears on the
> > desktop however it does not appear in the file system inside the Desktop
> folder.
> >
> > It looks like I have something wrong with the syntax however I do not
> > have any boot errors requiring me to skip like I got with previous
attempts.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> Hi:  I've no experience of cifs/Ubuntu but this might be useful:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
> 
> John P
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Thanks John,

Ive been using this guide and though I had followed it to the letter however
I must have made a simple mistake I cannot spot.

This is the problem with entering test strings into config files where you
can be punished for the simplest of syntax errors that are not easy to spot
if you are not familiar with the language.

Regards




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