[mythtv-users] network drive for music

[Dean Collins]

Thanks geoff, I got tied up last night so never implemented it but
thanks for letting me know this is the right idea.

Cheers,
Dean


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Scott
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:56 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] network drive for music
> 
> On 5/4/05, Dean Collins <Dean at collins.net.pr> wrote:
> > Thanks for that, this is the page I found, looks plausible with a
> > cursory look - will reply to the list later if I get it to work (/
or
> > need more help).
> >
> >
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanent
> > ly.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dean
> >
> 
> I actually am doing this with my music, pictures, and video.  I mount
> the M$ shares (winvideo, winpictures, and winmusic) at boot with
> commands in rc.local through Samba, as was suggested earlier in this
> thread.  They get mounted to directories in /mnt.  I then can symlink
> to them.  I symlink mainly for videos, because when I rip a DVD, it
> goes into the directory on the MythBox I specified for videos (/rip).
> At least in prior versions of MythTV, you could not define mulitple
> locations for videos, so I just put a symlink in my movie directory
> (/rip) to the proper /mnt samba share... and I got everything in on
> the MythVideo menu.
> 
> I could also bind mount (mount -o bind ....) the M$ share into the
> proper directory, but I'm lazy the way I have it set up now works fine
> for me.
> 
> Works great.
> 
> gs
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