Hi guys,

I'm new to Knoppmyth and in general, Linux. I've had previously a version of Unbuntu running and managed to mount an external NAS drive. I am struggling where to find any options or any method to mounth my drives. They are running on an IP address eg 192.168.0.30. I would like to use these drives to rip my DVD's to - then access these in mythtv.

I've searched for a few hours on google, these forums and in the wiki but couldn't really find a "simple" (ish) answer!!

Please can someone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks.

Matt.

Well, I'd guess the first question is "Is the NAS nfs or smb?"

hmm, yes, sorry!! hey have previously been used on Windows - does that help? (sorry if I am being a little slow here!)

it's a buffalo linkstation and a freecom network drive.

Cheers

If this helps, I have an NFS drive that I use for DVDs. I put this in my /etc/fstab after I did mkdir /mnt/movies



I used to have a similar setup with SMB. A google for fstab smbfs should help.

FWIW, any consumer-oriented NAS is going to probably have SMB (CIFS) enabled by default, but may be able to do NFS too.
There are instructions in the wiki for mounting external paths using both methods (SMB for windows machines).

This will probably turn into a hot topic once the KM distro with Storage Groups rolls out...

Also FWIW, here's my fstab entry for mounting the "music" share on my XP server, for XP user mythv

(all one line)

//s3/music /myth/music smbfs username=mythtv,password=theXPpassword,gid=mythtv,dmask=777,fmask=777,rw 0 0

I added the dmask/fmask (wide open) settings because I had permission problems otherwise, when trying to rip CDs or use the cool new Myth2mp3 script. I probably went too far though.

I'm just now setting up a freenas system, so I'll be moving to NFS instead. I took advantage of the Newegg $125 750GB SATA special....

cheers - that did the trick. I also tried LinNeighborhood for mounting, that worked ok with the linkstation but wouldnt connect to the Freecom device.

I ended up editing the fstab file which was something like

//192.168.0.11/public /myth/video/remote smbfs username=xx,password=xx,dmode=777 0 0

Now it finds my videos stored on there. Perfect.

Many thanks!!