[mythtv-users] Userfreindly filenames of .nuv files?

[Jules Bean]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:40:31 +1000
>>> Do you know why the symlinks that I created with mythlink.sh don't work 
>> when using them from a remote computer with the myth machines hard drive 
>> connect as an NFS drive over the network? Either that or programs like 
>> Xine can't play video files via symlinks, and gmplayer and kaffeine
>> won't even show symlinks in their file open dialogs?
> 
> remote filesystems often don't follow synlinkls, its a security thing.



This is as far as I know not true. I have used symlinks over NFS in the 
past quite extensively.

Typically they should be relative. Does this script perhaps use absolute 
links?

(Incidentally, programs which don't show symbolic links in their file 
dialogs are really broken)

Jules