[mythtv-users] File storage

[cmisip]

Not a guru, but I think If you have a sufficiently fast network
connection like 100mbps, you should be able to save recordings to a
remote  file server.  You simply need to configure the windows machine
to share the drive and then use smb to mount it in linux running mythtv.
Something like:
smbmount //fileserver/remotedir /mnt/localmountpoint

where fileserver is the remote machine name or it can be the ip of the
remote machine and remotedir is the share name.  You dont even need to
configure the samba server locally on the linux machine since the win2k
server is the one doing the sharing.  Then its just a matter of pointing
Mythtv to the /mnt/localmountpoint to record shows.  Ensure that the
permissions on the directory will allow mythtv to record to it.  Also, I
cannot speak for ntfs partitions, I assume you are talking about fat32
filesystem.  If so, you will run into the 2 gig file barrier in fat32. 
Any recording over 1.5 hours will fail because of this.  

check http://cmisip.home.insightbb.com/index.htm for some info that
might help you.



 

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:55, Dave Evans wrote:
>  I have not built my mythv yet im planning now for it and I have a few
> questions . I have a 600gig ide raid 5 fileserver running win2k
> server, I would like to either store recorded shows there as an
> archive, or maybe even all shows, I don’t understand what would be
> best. I could reserve 400Gb for myth,And the very next question might
> be off topic but is samba hard to get working correctly?
> 
>  
> 
> I am very much a linux newbie, I downloaded mandrake and got it
> installed and ive stoped there, im not shure how to install software
> yet. Ive poked around and done some stuff read some of the guides but
> im not shure whats going on. I have a friend that knows linux but he’s
> away for a month so I was trying to get hardware setup ahead of time.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone in seattle,wa. A myth tv guru??
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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