Doug Stewart on 21 Apr 2011 16:48:27 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Network shares


It's not samba. Note the "-t nfs". He's performing NFS mounts.

Please post your /etc/exports from the server that's doing the file serving.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Conor Schaefer
<conor.schaefer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like Samba problem. Post your smb.conf?
>
> On Apr 21, 2011 7:29 PM, "Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have never really understood network shares in Linux, particularly the
>> pathing. I am trying to map the MythTV music folder from the back end to
>> the
>> front end. The path on both the backend and frontend is:
>> /var/lib/mythtv/music
>>
>> A while back I was able to do this with the videos folder with the
>> following
>> command on the frontend:
>> sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=3 192.168.1.240:/var/lib/mythtv/videos /videos
>>
>> And now trying the same thing with:
>> sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=3 192.168.1.240:/var/lib/mythtv/music /music
>>
>> Both of these commands now yields the error "mount point /videos [or
>> /music]
>> does not exist".
>>
>> Since having this working with the videos folder everything has been
>> completely rebuilt and upgraded to 0.23 (now 0.24) which did away with the
>> need for a network share for the videos. Music is not working, even though
>> I
>> can see all of the meta data, so I was assuming file shares were still
>> required for music. I have both NFS and Samba enabled on the server side,
>> and it seems to be setup correctly because I have no problem doing a drive
>> mapping from MS Windows, where I can both read and write. I have also
>> tried
>> both nfs and smbfs and get basically the same result.
>>
>> The full path /var/lib/mythtv/music exists on the frontend.
>>
>> Can anyone explain this to me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
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