[mythtv-users] OT problem with CIFS and Fedora8

[jack snodgrass]

I use CIFS for most of my autofs mounts because if you use nfs mounts... nfs
periodically ( often ) mouts the drives to check on their status...
something like
that... it was weird.... you didn't have to do anything ( that would access an
autofs drive ) and if it was an NFS mount... it would be mounted every
couple of minutes.  If I used CIFS instead... it's only mounted when I
access it.

I have about 4TB of drive storage... I use autofs, cifs, and hdparm to put the
un-used drives to sleep after 5 minutes of in-activity.  When I need data off
of the drives, autofs mouns them and they wake back up.... when I'm done
with them, autofs unmounts them and the go to sleep shortly after... NFS
screwed that up and the drives were constantly going up and down....

CIFS works fine for video storage and playing across the network....

jack

On Nov 14, 2007 9:55 AM, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 01:51:19 kim Gross wrote:
> > I just upgraded my back end and one front end to fedora 8.  I thought
> > everything was working well, until I tried to get to my videos.
> >
> > I use cifs to mount the storage area on my front end so I can get to the
> > movies and music.  Well with the upgrade to fedora 8 from fedora 6, I am
> > now getting  a permission denied error number 13.  On my fedora 6 front
> > end, the exact same command line works great.
> >
> > Is anybody else seeing this or have any ideas what to do?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > [root at main /]# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.12/mythtv  -o username=mythtv
> > /rstore
> > Password:
> > mount error 13 = Permission denied
> > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> > [root at main /]#
>
> I've not encountered this specific error, but I do have a few suggestions:
>
> 1) Check the Samba log file on the Samba server system. This is usually
>    stored as a separate file or files in /var/log, as in /var/log/smb.log
>    or a bunch of files in /var/log/samba/. You may find a clue in there,
>    as in an entry about failed authentication.
>
> 2) Check the permissions on the mount point on the Samba client. It's
>    conceivable there's been a change to the Samba mount tools that
>    requires the mount point to be owned by whoever will own the files
>    (mythtv in your case). This strikes me as a little unlikely, since
>    you're running the command as root, but it's easy enough to check.
>
> 3) Try accessing the share using the smbclient program. Sometimes
>    smbclient will provide different error messages, which might be
>    more helpful. OTOH, it might not fail at all, which in this case
>    wouldn't provide you with any information. Note that this is a
>    diagnostic step; by itself, this won't solve anything.
>
> More broadly speaking, you might want to consider switching to NFS for
> Linux-to-Linux file sharing. The SMB/CIFS protocol wasn't really designed for
> this, and although protocol updates over the years, Samba improvements, and
> the Linux cifs filesystem driver all make CIFS better for this task, NFS is
> much simpler and was designed for this task from the outset. If you need
> SMB/CIFS to share the MythTV directories with Windows systems, you can
> certainly keep it in place; it's possible to share the same directory with
> both NFS and Samba.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
>
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