[mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:46 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 16/02/11 19:06, Nick Rout wrote:
> >  >
> >
> >      >
> >      > Have you tried mounting from the command line? It may give you
> some
> >      > useful feedback
> >      >
> >      > mount -t cifs //possum/MusicFilms /mnt/MusicFilms
> >      >
> >      >> >This gives the following error message:
> >      >
> >      >> >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> >     //possum/MusicFilms,
> >      >
> >      > missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >      >
> >      > (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
> >      >
> >      > need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
> >      >
> >      > In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try dmesg | tail or
> so
> >      >
> >
> >
> > I think you may need to install smbfs:
> >
> > sudo aptitude install smbfs
> >
> >     This attempt to mount doesn't provide any of the security data that
> you
> >     were trying to pass through your fstab line.  If it's a security
> problem
> >     the response is often - probably deliberately - unhelpful.
> >
> >
> > no it will usually ask for a password
>
> Of course, if the fstab line has worked the security should be handled
> automatically.
>
> And Fedora has the cifs-utils package available:
>
> The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely
> deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for
> mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this
> package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to
> mount a SMB/CIFS share onto a client and use it as if it were a standard
> Linux file system.
>
>
On ubuntu the needed package is smbfs, and if it is not installed it gives
exactly the message Anthony posted when mounting on the command line. (yes
it is called smbfs but supplies mount.cifs

nick at media:~$ dpkg -L smbfs|grep mount
/sbin/mount.smbfs
/sbin/mount.cifs
/sbin/umount.cifs
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.cifs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/umount.cifs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/smbmount.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.smbfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/smbumount.8.gz
/usr/bin/smbumount
/usr/bin/smbmount
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