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

[John Pilkington]

On 15/02/11 13:10, Anthony Rooney wrote:

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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=/ho
>> me/a
>>> nthony
>>> /.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
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>
> Thanks John,
>
> Ive been using this guide and though I had followed it to the letter however
> I must have made a simple mistake I cannot spot.
>
> This is the problem with entering test strings into config files where you
> can be punished for the simplest of syntax errors that are not easy to spot
> if you are not familiar with the language.
>
> Regards
>

Yes.  I did wonder where you had found the incantation you quoted. 
Sorry, I don't think I can shed any more light on it.  If no-one else 
can it looks as if more googling will be called for :-(.

Cheers,

John P