[mythtv-users] Samba File shares to mythbackend [SOLVED]

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Fri Sep 3 16:50:54 UTC 2010


 On 09/03/10 11:22, John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Calvin Harrigan
> <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>  I have a pretty decent mythtv setup on  a combination frontend/backend.
>>  I've recently resurrected another frontend and have come across a simple
>> enough problem and was looking for some advice.  It's setup so that the
>> remote frontend can wake up the backend, that works great, the problem is
>> that I'd like to have the media files (non-recordings) available on the
>> frontend, so I shared them on the backend and mounted them on the front end,
>> that also works great.  I've went as far as adding the mount to the fstab
>> file.  Here's where the problem comes up, if the backend is already on
>> everything works great, if the frontend has to wake the back end the shares
>> doesn't get mounted because fstab is processed before the backend is booted.
>>  I'm sure someone else has done something like this and I would appreciate
>> any insight to this problem.  Thanks.
>> BTW:
>> Mythtv 0.23.1 on Gentoo 2.6.35-r4
>>
> Maybe autofs will help. I use that a lot with gentoo. I am a little
> confused what you are trying to do however.
>
> John
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Thanks, that worked out great.
I used this link in case this question comes up again.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Autofs




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