[mythtv-users] Mounting DVDs via NFS problem

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Sun Jan 22 23:43:52 UTC 2006


Piers Kittel wrote:

>Geoff,
>
>  
>
>>Just guessing: 2 possible answers.  1. It looks like the mount on the 
>>server is exclusive and no-one else is allowed access while the server 
>>'owns' it.
>>2.  You, as a user on destiny, do not have permission to actually read 
>>anything mounted on mythtv. Maybe add yourself (piers) to a group on the 
>>server and on the client, and give the group access rights to 
>>mythtv:/media/cdrom.
>>    
>>
>
>
>Brilliant thanks for your help!
>
>OK have done a bit of investigation and have found the following:
>
>when DVD drive is unmounted, the directory is:
>
>drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 1024 2005-06-07 19:30 cdrom0
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>but when I mount the DVD, I get:
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>dr-xr-xr-x  3 4294967295 4294967295 88 2003-09-08 21:08 cdrom0
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>The full path is /media/cdrom0
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>How do I fix this issue?
>
>Thanks very much for your help again
>  
>
One answer which will last through a reboot would be to amend the line 
in 50-udev.rules to add a "Group=mythtv" and "Mode=770" to the line 
describing /dev/hdc or whatever your hardware is listed as ( as in fstab).

HTH
Geoff


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