[mythtv-users] Mapping to a Windows share

[Harry Devine]

Anthony Giggins wrote:
>> David George wrote:
>>     
>>> On 01/23/2008 08:34 PM, Harry Devine wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I recently put Windows XP back onto my main PC in the house, mainly
>>>> because I couldn't get any drivers to work for my ATI Radeon X1600 card
>>>> on FC8, and also because the Flash support for x86_64 was non existant.
>>>> So I went back figuring I'd try again at a later date.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I have most of my MP3s on my Windows box.  I'd like to allow
>>>> Myth to access them from there instead of copying them over to the Myth
>>>> box.  I have a share setup called Music on the Windows box and it's
>>>> open
>>>> to Everyone (permissions-wise).  When I try to mount to it from my Myth
>>>> box, nothing happens.  It just sits there forever looking like it's
>>>> trying, but never mounts it.  I'm entering:
>>>>
>>>>              mount 192.168.1.101:/music /mnt/music
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?  I'd really like to not have files duplicated on 2 machines.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You didn't mention what Linux distro you are running on your myth box,
>>> but as you mentioned F8 for the other system the following should work:
>>>
>>> mount -t cifs -o "username=loginname,uid=loginname"
>>> //192.168.1.101/music /mnt/music
>>>
>>> Then just enter your password and you should be good to go.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Sorry about the Linux distro.  It's FC6.  I entered the following and
>> got it to work:
>>        mount -t cifs -o username=Administrator,password=#######
>> //192.168.1.101/music /mnt/music
>>
>> So, for the next dumb question:  can I somehow put this into my
>> /etc/fstab so it can be mounted up automatically?  I'm assuming a line
>> similar to the following should be close:
>>        //192.168.1.101/music   /mnt/music   cifs
>> username=Administrator,password=####### 0 0
>>
>> Thanks for all the help!
>> Harry
>>
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>
> Just add the command into /etc/rc.local
> mount -t cifs -o username=Administrator,password=#######
> //192.168.1.101/music /mnt/music
>
> Cheers Anthony
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Worked perfectly!!!  Just what I was hoping for!  Thanks a million guys!

Harry