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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nick Rout<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 16 February 2011 5:47 AM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion about MythTV<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Anthony Rooney <<a href="mailto:rooneyo@iinet.net.au">rooneyo@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-">mythtv-users-</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>> <a href="mailto:bounces@mythtv.org">bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of jedi<br>> Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 12:11 AM<br>> To: Discussion about MythTV<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder<br>><br>> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:53:51PM +1030, Anthony Rooney wrote:<br>> > Raymond<br>> ><br>> > What syntax do you use to point to a location on another network PC<br>> > with Myth Video?<br>> ><br>> > For example if I had video files stored on another PC on my LAN named<br>> > Capture in a folder named Movies how do I define this in Myth Video?<br>><br>> You mount that remote folder as a part of the local filesystem and<br>treat it<br>> like any other local folder.<br>><br>> [deletia]<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On advice from this forum I sought to mount the remote folder using CIFS as<br>I was told that this was better than using SAMBA.<br><br>I sought to mount the remote folder MusicFilms, which resides on a Win7<br>machine named POSSUM mapped to my MythTv box file system at the location<br>/mnt/MusicFilms<br><br>I added the following to my fstab file having created a .credentials in my<br>home folder with my windows user name and password:<br><br><br> //possum/MusicFilms /mnt/MusicFilms cifs<br>rw,uid=anthony,gid=workgroup,fmask=0117,dmask=0007,noauto,cred=/home/anthony<br>/.credentials<br><br>I also tried the following line to see if I could mount using SAMBA which I<br>know is running on the machine<br># //possum/MusicFilms /mnt/MusicFilms smbfs guest 0 0<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Have you tried mounting from the command line? It may give you some useful feedback<br><br>mount -t cifs //possum/MusicFilms /mnt/MusicFilms <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>>This gives the following error message:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //possum/MusicFilms,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> missing codepage or helper program, or other error<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try dmesg | tail or so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Note via the Ubuntu "Places" file system interface I can browse and connect<br>to this share and mount it without any problem however I have no way of<br>making the mapping persistent.<br><br>I would be interested in knowing where in the Linux file system does it<br>place the remote folder if I user the Network interface of Ubuntu and browse<br>to the remote folder and chose Mount from the dropdown command list? A<br>representation of the remote folder appears on the desktop however it does<br>not appear in the file system inside the Desktop folder.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>~/.gvfs<br><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><br>It looks like I have something wrong with the syntax however I do not have<br>any boot errors requiring me to skip like I got with previous attempts.<br><br>Thanks<br><br><br>Anthony<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>