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

[John Pilkington]

On 16/02/11 13:43, Anthony Rooney wrote:
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> *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder
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> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Anthony Rooney <rooneyo at iinet.net.au
> <mailto:rooneyo at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
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>  > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder
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>  > 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
>
>
> Have you tried mounting from the command line? It may give you some
> useful feedback
>
> mount -t cifs //possum/MusicFilms /mnt/MusicFilms
>
>> >This gives the following error message:
>
>> >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //possum/MusicFilms,
>
> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>
> (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
>
> need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
>
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try dmesg | tail or so
>

This attempt to mount doesn't provide any of the security data that you 
were trying to pass through your fstab line.  If it's a security problem 
the response is often - probably deliberately - unhelpful.

About your fstab line:  do you need write permission?

Is anthony a good uid?  Shouldn't it be 500?  Do you need a gid? Where 
did the masks and noauto come from?  I don't see them in the ubuntu page 
I suggested earlier that you said you had tried to follow - but I found 
it pretty opaque in patches, too.

This really looks like a problem for the ubuntu lists - although there 
are many people with buntu experience here it's a buntu problem.

Cheers,

John P