<Linux Noobe question alert!>

I have a WD Network HDD that I've been keeping my mp3s on. Works great!

How can I access this drive from myth to play music? (I've googled, but don't even know what I'm really looking for...)

(Answer me like I'm a five month old linux noob, please?)

You would need to mount the filesystem of the WD Network HDD to your Myth box(en) to access files on it. Should be something along the lines of
Then you would have to change the path in your MythMusic settings to point to <directory on your Myth box>.

You may need to to get CIFS support.

I haven't played with CIFS so I may be missing something, but that should get you started. man mount for more information, and note that the WD Network HDD utilizes CIFS.

Thanks slow2. You got me started. I was able to make the directory "mp3". However I didn't get much further. I looked through the man page but it was a bit overwhelming. I wasn't able to 'get' much out of it.

Here's where I'm at. I type in the:

line and I get


I must have the slashes or something wrong. I've tried \\ and // and : that was in your example above. I've checked the ip address and it's correct, the device name is just the default WD-NetCenter. I checked the spelling and caps. on the drive the directory is 'Shared Files" I've tried this with the space and an underscore instead of the space, is there something else? I must be missing something real simple.

Any idea's appreciated... TIA

OK, let's break this down into the individual parts:

What is the IP address of the WD-NetCenter?
What is the exact name of the directory that contains your MP3s?

In my example the variables (names, etc that you would need to provide) are enclosed in < >, so you wouldn't type those. For example, let's say your WD-NetCenter's IP address is 10.0.0.50, the directory that contains your MP3s is "Shared Files" (literally, with the space), and the directory you created on your Myth box is /mp3. The mount command would be something along the lines of:
You may run into problems with "Shared Files" because of the space. If so, try and other variants.

*nix systems rarely play nice with spaces in file/directory names.

You could also just mount the /myth/music directory, which would mean need to redirect myth, but that'll only work if there's nothing in the music directory already.

I use the command:


For this, but as you're using cifs, this wont work...

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Don't those suggestions get killed on reboot?

I added a line in /etc/fstab

//machineIPorName/share /myth/music smbfs credentials=/home/mythtv/.smbpasswd 0 0

The above two lines should be one but broke in this editor.

I just add the following line in fstab I have all my movies stored on a network file server, works great dvds and all. and change the path in myth of course.

/etc/fstab

HEY! Got music!

Here's what I did...

First changed the shared directory to "mythtv" to eliminate the [space] problem with "Shared Files".

then populated the new directory with an mp3 to sample.

finally did;

it asked for PASSWORD, I typed it in, it gave an error "SETFSUnixInfo - -5"

I checked the /mp3 directory and played the mp3 file

My last question is what do I need to do to mount this upon start-up?

PS. This place rocks!

You could have simply added an underscore (_) between Shared and Files, but that is neither here nor there...


This is where I'm guessing we may run into a problem. I don't know the particulars to CIFS, so I don't know if the password prompt will appear each and every time. And I have no idea what means...


Try unmounting the network unit with
Then use the same mount command you used previously (mount -t cifs 192.168.1.6:/mythtv /mp3). Are you still prompted for a password?

Thanks for the tip on the "_" lol I should have tried that...

I tried to unmount but I don't know if it worked as I still could see the mp3 file in the /mp3 directory. However I did re-mount and again was asked for a password.

OK, give me this (sorry, this would probably go a lot faster if I knew CIFS!):


Need all the output...

OK I'm typing this out...

df -h


after mount it's the above plus:

Good, you have another 466Gb there, so you are hitting the network disk.

OK, then you may want to try Mort322's idea with to see if that gets you past having to enter the password. If you can't get past that then you'll have a problem with automating the mount (mounting during a reboot). Quite honestly I don't know if password= is a valid option for CIFS mounts...

No go. It pops the short edition of the man page... I'm googling for more info. Once I find the correct option for the password, do I add to the fstab?

I don't like to use fstab for remote mounts, I prefer to create a file within the /etc/rc5.d directory to handle that for me (old Sys V days, can't get past them!). Be sure to make it executable if you go this route.