[mythtv-users] Cannot access recorded video from remote front end

[kim gross]

Chris Pinkham wrote:

>* On Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 10:43:18PM -0600, kim gross wrote:
>  
>
>>I don't think it should make any difference but I do have the 
>>/video/store directory structure shared on both the backend and frontend 
>>(just for mythdvd) so if it did not want to stream the file it should be 
>>able to read it from the share.
>>    
>>
>
>If you have the directory mounted in the same place on both machines and
>the file exists, then the code will try to play the file back by reading
>it locally instead of streaming it from the backend.
>
>Can you run a "ls -aln /video/store" on both servers and paste the
>results?  Are the uid's the same for the user that you run mythfrontend
>and mythbackend or are the files marked group or world readable?
>
>  
>
Chris. 

After figuring out where you were going I have come up with some strange 
behavior.  It is some type of a permissions issue, I am using cifs to 
mount the share on my desktop machine so I can access large ISO's, well 
with cifs I can not access the files I get a permission denied error, if 
I switch back to smbfs, it works without any problems, other than I 
can't do large .iso files.  I don't understand what is going on.  When I 
use cifs I can copy to the network share without any problems, but I 
can't read anything on the share, with smbfs I can't copy large files, 
but I can read and write other files without any problems.

Do you have any suggestions on how to fix cifs?  I have my fstab setup as
//192.168.1.12/mythtv   /video                  cifs    
exec,credentials=/etc/smb.auth, 0 0
If I just change the cifs to smbfs with no other changes, smbfs allows 
me to read without any problems.



Anyway on the backend

[mythtv at mythtv store]$ ls -aln /video/store
total 320013544
drwxrwxr-x  2 500 500      24576 Oct 10 23:46 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 500 500       4096 Oct 10 23:38 ..
-rw-r--r--  1   0   0  882735104 Sep 18 20:20 1006_20060918200000.mpg
-rw-rw-rw-  1   0   0      32882 Sep 18 20:28 1006_20060918200000.mpg.png
-rw-r--r--  1   0   0 1615298560 Sep 18 21:01 1006_20060918202300.mpg
-rw-rw-rw-  1   0   0      31731 Sep 18 21:01 1006_20060918202300.mpg.png

On the frontend machine

[root at main /]# ls -aln /video/store
total 320096000
drwxrwxr-x  2 500 500          0 Oct 11 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 500 500          0 Oct 10 23:38 ..
-rw-r--r--  1   0   0  882735104 Sep 18 20:20 1006_20060918200000.mpg
-rw-rw-rw-  1   0   0      32882 Sep 18 20:28 1006_20060918200000.mpg.png
-rw-r--r--  1   0   0 1615298560 Sep 18 21:01 1006_20060918202300.mpg
-rw-rw-rw-  1   0   0      31731 Sep 18 21:01 1006_20060918202300.mpg.png
-rw-r--r--  1   0   0 2604003344 Sep 25 20:01 1006_20060925190000.mpg