[mythtv-users] mythlink and NFS mounts

[Larry Roberts]

On 10/22/2012 12:39 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 10/22/2012 11:47, Larry Roberts wrote:
>> In preparing to upgrade my system and to make things easier for future
>> upgrades I have moved my videos to an NFS mount.
>>
>> After doing this mythlink.pl running on the backend creates links that
>> are perfectly valid for the backend, but unfortunately no longer valid
>> for a remote windows system that is mounting an SMB share of the
>> directly the symlinks are created in.  When the videos were local it
>> worked great.
>
> There is some "unix extensions" parameter that needs to be disabled to 
> force Samba to dereference the symlinks server side, there there is 
> access to the files. The default behavior, if the Windows client is 
> sufficiently new to be capable of doing so, is to pass the links 
> through and let the Windows client dereference.
Thanks!  You gave me the info needed to get it all sorted. Looks like 
several things changed, the most important being wide links and follow 
symlinks. Once I made those changes, (and also changed from NFS to CIFS 
for the mount) it works.

I'm getting closer and closer to my upgrade.  Thanks to all.
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