[mythtv-users] Shared filesystem that looks different to different machines

[Adrian Saul]

You could just a set of shares for the podcasts, then on each machine 
mount the normal music share at /myth/music and /myth/music/Podcasts 
could be the users individual share of podcasts.

Alternatively you might be able to do something creating with autofs, 
but its probably more trouble than its worth for a small setup, 
especially when its probably going to be fairly static.



On 4/06/2014 1:56 PM, Mike Holden wrote:
> Sounds like a weird question, so let me elucidate!
>
> On my mythtv box, I have a directory which contains all my ripped
> CDs. This is shared via nfs and samba so that all other machines
> (there's windows and linux clients) in the network can access them
> to play music. Let's call this /myth/music.
>
> The issue is that when this area is shared with iTunes, iTunes
> insists on putting the downloaded podcasts in /myth/music/Podcasts.
> There is no configuration for the podcasts location, it always puts
> it at one level below your music. This is fine for a single user.
>
> The problem comes when several people want to use iTunes to access
> the music and load their own podcasts, because the podcasts area is
> also shared via the same location for all users.
>
> Therefore I need everyone to access /myth/music as a shared area,
> but everyone needs to be able to access /myth/music/Podcasts as a
> different area to all the other users.
>
> I've tried Googling this, but not come up with the right combination
> of vague words to find a solution here.
>
> The only way I've thought of to work round this so far is to maybe
> create /myth/music/Podcasts as a symbolic link to /local/Podcasts,
> which is outside of /myth/music, and then share /myth/music out to
> different Linux boxes, and each user obtains /myth/music from a
> different server, all of which have a different /local/Podcasts.
> This sounds like it should work, but I haven't tried it yet.
>
> I don't want to duplicate the music - there's over 15,000 tracks in
> there, and the collection is not fully online yet! This would be a
> major waste of disk.
>
> Can anyone think of any other way of doing this so that each user
> can share a single copy of the music and have a local copy of
> podcasts, given the invariance in the iTunes setup for the location
> of the podcasts?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.