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[Brett Stevens]

On 20/02/2007, at 9:26 AM, Rod Smith wrote:

> On Monday 19 February 2007 16:58, Jared Greenwald wrote:
>> I seem to be a little confused about how this whole backend/ 
>> frontend thing
>> works.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to keep all of my media up on the backend.  This
>> includes transcoded DVD movies, music, and tv shows.  It doesn't  
>> seem to be
>> setup this way.  Ultimately, I'd like to setup a single backend  
>> machine
>> with multiple frontend machines.  I'd like all of the media files  
>> to reside
>> on the backend so that they can be played on any of the frontend  
>> machines.
>>
>> I'm playing with a test setup at the moment with a backend and  
>> separate
>> frontend machine and when I attempt to rip a DVD, it seems to just  
>> plop the
>> resulting files on the local frontend's disk.
>>
>> Also, same with mp3s/music files.
>>
>> Has anyone tried this?  How would I be able to set this up such that
>> everything is shared.
>
> If there's a within-MythTV way of doing this, I don't know what it is;
> however, doing it with the help of conventional Linux file-sharing  
> tools
> shouldn't be too hard. You need to do two things:
>
> 1) Configure the backend system to share the directories in which you
>    want to store video files, music files, and whatever else.
>
> 2) Create /etc/fstab entries on the frontend system to automatically
>    mount the directories you've shared via step #1 in the locations
>    where you tell the frontend to place ripped DVD files, to look for
>    video files, etc.
>
> NFS is the Linux-native way to do this, and NFS *SHOULD* work  
> adequately, but
> I've only done a few short tests with it so my practical experience is
> limited. Alternatively, you could try Samba on the backend and  
> Linux's SMBFS
> or CIFS driver on the frontend. This *SHOULD* also work adequately,  
> but I've
> not tried it at all with MythTV. For Myth/Linux-only networks, I'd  
> try NFS;
> but Samba/SMBFS/CIFS would be easier if you want Windows boxes to  
> have access
> to your MythTV files. (You can run both NFS and Samba on the  
> backend, if you
> like.) In any event, you'll have to pay attention to ownership,  
> permissions,
> and read/write vs. read-only issues, but the details of how to do  
> this are
> different for the two protocols.
>
> -- 
> Rod Smith
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
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