[mythtv-users] Samba share of mythfs.py filesystem not working

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:37 PM, John Reid <johnbaronreid at netscape.net> wrote:
> On 26/01/11 04:22, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:24 AM, John Reid<johnbaronreid at netscape.net>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use mythfs.py: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythfs.py
>>>
>>> It seems to create the filesystem(s) just fine. However when I try to
>>> share
>>> them over Samba my WDTV live cannot see any files. When I use smbclient I
>>> get the following:
>>>
>>> Domain=[58KYNASTON] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.4]
>>> Server not using user level security and no password supplied.
>>> smb: \>  ls
>>> NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER listing \*
>>>
>>>        40960 blocks of size 512. 1 blocks available
>>> smb: \>
>>>
>>> Other Samba shares work just fine. Does anyone know what's going on here?
>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=671834
>>
> I'm afraid it doesn't, I'm already using the allow_other option. Just to
> clarify I'm setting up the share as follows. I set up a mount directory:
>
> sudo mkdir /media/recordings-by-date
>
> then I create the FUSE filesystem:
>
> sudo python /home/john/bin/mythfs.py Recordings,by-date /media/myth-by-date
> -o allow_other
>
> which seems to work:
>
> john at htpc:~$ ls -l /media/recordings-by-date/
> total 103
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  1 2010-10-17 13:42 2010-02-23
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  1 2010-10-17 13:42 2010-02-27
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  1 2010-10-17 13:42 2010-03-03
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root  2 2010-10-17 13:42 2010-03-16
> ....
>
> The relevant bit of my samba conf is:
> [global]
> workgroup = 58KYNASTON
> server string = %h server (Samba, Mythbuntu)
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 1000
> syslog = 0
> panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
> dns proxy = no
> security = share
>
> [by-date]
> comment = TV Recordings by date
> path = /media/recordings-by-date
> public = yes
> writable = no
> create mask = 0777
> directory mask = 0777
> force user = nobody
> force group = nogroup
>
> and then from my samba client on another machine I have:
> john at john-dell:~$ smbclient //192.168.1.74/by-date/ -U anonymous -N
> Domain=[58KYNASTON] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.4]
> Server not using user level security and no password supplied.
> smb: \> ls
> NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER listing \*
>
>        40960 blocks of size 512. 1 blocks available
>
> Other samba shares work just fine! It must have something to do with how the
> FUSE filesystem is set up but I have no idea what. I've tried messing around
> with the FUSE uid and gid options but to no avail.
>
> In my samba client log file I get:
> [2011/01/26 10:32:18.747885,  1] smbd/service.c:1070(make_connection_snum)
>  192.168.1.5 (192.168.1.5) connect to service by-date initially as user
> nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 19908)
> [2011/01/26 10:32:20.283212,  1] smbd/vfs.c:932(check_reduced_name)
>  check_reduced_name: couldn't get realpath for *
> [2011/01/26 10:32:20.291793,  0] smbd/dfree.c:155(sys_disk_free)
>  WARNING: dfree is broken on this system
> [2011/01/26 10:32:21.623071,  1] smbd/service.c:1251(close_cnum)
>  192.168.1.5 (192.168.1.5) closed connection to service by-date
>
> but I couldn't find any pointers about dfree from a quick google.
>
>
> Is mythtvfs suitable for this task? From what I could see, it seemed to have
> been superceded by mythfs.py. Can I find a newer/better version of mythfs.py
> anywhere?
>
> Needless to say, any help appreciated!

Why not try another approach, use mythlink to make useful names and
then share that directory?