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2010-12-01, 09:38
I'm just wondering.
is there any benefits mounting a share via fstab, rather than adding a location to the movie, music ect via xbmc?
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Mines XBMC Live, but I have Sickbeard installed to it and need SB to access the drive. Doing it through XBMC's Share's does not work. SB needs a location to put file. The reason I'm mounting my drives with FStab.
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DejaVu77 has a good point - if you run any other apps/services on your machine that needs access to the resource, then you should mount the share using FSTAB (or other mount) vs using XBMC to access the resource.
In my case, I'm just a linux guy and setting up NFS/SMB shares thru FSTAB is just what I'm used to doing...
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Hmm....that's a tough one - so many variables. For user, you might want to use <computername>\<user> instead of just <user>. Usually write permissions are brokered by the sharing computer, not the computer connecting. This is an NTFS drive too, isn't it.
I'll noodle over it....
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2010-12-08, 10:05
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-08, 10:07 by DejaVu.)
All 5 drives are NTFS with Everyone Permissions with Full Control.
My User & Pass is in the FSTAB and has Read access only by the looks. I also tried adding 'rw' to the line, but still does not work.
I'll try and delete a file now in XBMC and see what happens...
--EDIT--
Yep, deleting fails...
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2010-12-08, 10:36
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-08, 10:59 by X3lectric.)
have you created a local directory where the remote shares mount to.
I have mounted stuff via fstab but have to create local folders where those remote shares mount to abd the local folders have read/write permissions, so I can do whatever.
For NFS
Code:
192.168.x.x:/mnt/HD_b2/TV_SERIES /media/TV_SERIES nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0
For SMB
Code:
//<serverhostname/ip>/<sharename> /mnt/<foldername> smbfs rw,noperm,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,username=<username>,password=<password> 0 0
You should figure out the rest, though why bother doing all this in first place when smb is naf.. idk why XBMC doest go and support NFS once and for all.
if you cant figure it out now idk...
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well I have my plate full... why dont you write a proper how to on the wiki?
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Try to change smbfs to cifs
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i use cifs with smbfs - works like a charm. as stated above, make sure the mounting folder exists and has access rights, and also make sure the mounted computer folder (ie the one you're trying to bring into the current OS) has permissions set properly
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Seems as though I may have messed up somehow.
Permissions are screwed again.
My Fstab is setup using the line show in this thread. The drives are mounted, but the permissions are all messed up. Sickbeard, CouchPotato cannot write to the drives and moving things using Windows complains about Network Access Denied.
Anyone else experiencing this?