[mythtv-users] How do you point to a remote folder
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Feb 17 08:46:08 UTC 2011
On 16/02/11 19:06, Nick Rout wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
>
> I think you may need to install smbfs:
>
> sudo aptitude install smbfs
>
> 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.
>
>
> no it will usually ask for a password
Of course, if the fstab line has worked the security should be handled
automatically.
And Fedora has the cifs-utils package available:
The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely
deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for
mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this
package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to
mount a SMB/CIFS share onto a client and use it as if it were a standard
Linux file system.
>
> 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
>
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