Hi all,

I'm working on a KnoppMyth install, but one of my plans is to have a folder/shared drive/mount point mapped to another linux box that I already store media on. Ideally I would like the KnoppMyth box to write to this share and use it as the media folder, but I'm not sure how well it will do running over 11mbps wireless. If I can't get it to write well, I still want to access media on that machine.

So... How do I "map a drive" from linux to linux? I've set up Samba on several boxes (including the box I want to map to), but I've always connected with a windows machine. I'm not even sure what terms to use in a forum search for mapping linux to linux. I know Samba manages the sharing, so I'm thinking I won't be using Samba on the KnoppMyth box to map my drive or sharepoint.

Please point me in the right direction!

you can use fstab for that

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html

here's one of my fstab lines:
//lola/video /myth/video smbfs credentials=/home/mythtv/.smbpasswd 0 0

the lola server in this case is linux with samba

Thanks bonarez! Easier than I thought.

Or you could use nfs...

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NFSHowTo

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What stinga said. NFS will give you markedly better performance than SMB without the file size restrictions.

true, NFS gives a far better performance then any other file transfer protocol, even ftp However I still prefer samba for compatibility reasons. I'm running a 'mixed' network here, including several gnu/linux, a windows 2k and a mac os9. While it's possible to connect to nfs shares from windows, I haven't tried it from mac. smb shares are easily accesible from all os's I work with so imho samba is the easiest.

Thanks for all the opinions. I set up a samba share as well as an nfs share, and I find the nfs share to do the "buffer stutter" less, but both would be rough to actually "watch" something over the network. Although I can get through videos whithout a stutter that are small in size, say 10-20 mb, but any dvd rips are stutter madness. I guess 11b isn't enough throughput to stream video. I'll probably throw in a wired card once I work through some other things.

I wish there was some way to setup a buffer or read ahead with the video player. I was hopeful for a minute when I found the mythstream directory, but after further reading I found out it wasn't what I thought it was.

If you are using MythVideo with the default of Mplayer there is.

This command will utilize a 2MB cache.



Personally I don't like using fstab, can have share timeouts and loses connection. I prefer autofs (great howto on the WIKI) and soft links in appropiate media directory. This is script I use to quickly setup Knoppmyth's connection to my windos box. (replace parameters)