[mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder

[John Pilkington]

On 15/02/11 08:36, Anthony Rooney wrote:
>
>
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>> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of jedi
>> Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 12:11 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:53:51PM +1030, Anthony Rooney wrote:
>>> Raymond
>>>
>>> What syntax do you use to point to a location on another network PC
>>> with Myth Video?
>>>
>>> For example if I had video files stored on another PC on my LAN named
>>> Capture in a folder named Movies how do I define this in Myth Video?
>>
>>       You mount that remote folder as a part of the local filesystem and
> treat it
>> like any other local folder.
>>
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> On advice from this forum I sought to mount the remote folder using CIFS as
> I was told that this was better than using SAMBA.
>
> I sought to mount the remote folder MusicFilms, which resides on a Win7
> machine named POSSUM mapped to my  MythTv box file system at the location
> /mnt/MusicFilms
>
> I added the following to my fstab file having created a .credentials in my
> home folder with my windows user name and password:
>
> 	
>   //possum/MusicFilms	/mnt/MusicFilms	cifs
> rw,uid=anthony,gid=workgroup,fmask=0117,dmask=0007,noauto,cred=/home/anthony
> /.credentials
>
> I also tried the following line to see if I could mount using SAMBA which I
> know is running on the machine
> # //possum/MusicFilms	/mnt/MusicFilms	smbfs	guest	0	0
>
> Note via the Ubuntu "Places" file system interface I can browse and connect
> to this share and mount it without any problem however I have no way of
> making the mapping persistent.
>
> I would be interested in knowing where in the Linux file system does it
> place the remote folder if I user the Network interface of Ubuntu and browse
> to the remote folder and chose Mount from the dropdown command list?  A
> representation of the remote folder appears on the desktop however it does
> not appear in the file system inside the Desktop folder.
>
> It looks like I have something wrong with the syntax however I do not have
> any boot errors requiring me to skip like I got with previous attempts.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Anthony
>
Hi:  I've no experience of cifs/Ubuntu but this might be useful:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountWindowsSharesPermanently

John P