Linux SMB paths

[olde]

Ahah, well now, thank you, that makes me feel a lot less stupid. However, I also tried other ways to define the path, as I had seen some references to SMB paths not being too popular with SageTV, but those other methods also seem to be broken. What should we do? I had it working fine when it was first installed, maybe the last SageTV upgrade or SageMC are not linux-friendly?

[MrD]

Originally Posted by olde

Ahah, well now, thank you, that makes me feel a lot less stupid. However, I also tried other ways to define the path, as I had seen some references to SMB paths not being too popular with SageTV, but those other methods also seem to be broken. What should we do? I had it working fine when it was first installed, maybe the last SageTV upgrade or SageMC are not linux-friendly?

I am patiently waiting for the issue to be resolved, before I switch the server over to my linux server. I never experimented with the HD-PVR drivers on linux either.

I will say that the Windows server version works very well using linux as a samba server, it also worked well when I had iSCSI configured via linux as well.

[olde]

Originally Posted by MrD

Linux Server SMB paths are currently broken using a Windows Client ... I am patiently waiting for the issue to be resolved.

Thanks for your encouragement and advice. Soooo, any updates on a fix yet?

I just downloaded the 6.5.6 beta candidate, but SageTV still can't see the Samba server drives using a windows client.

By broken, do you mean that we had SMB paths working OK a while back? I am sure I did not have this problem when I first started using SageTV.

[MrD]

Still no worky in 6.5.7...

I wish I had access to the code... would fix it myself

Originally Posted by olde

Thanks for your encouragement and advice. Soooo, any updates on a fix yet?

I just downloaded the 6.5.6 beta candidate, but SageTV still can't see the Samba server drives using a windows client.

By broken, do you mean that we had SMB paths working OK a while back? I am sure I did not have this problem when I first started using SageTV.

[olde]

I updated to 6.5.6.200, and everything is fixed. Now of course, I am too scared to use anything but the default user interface (sorry to SageMC and MeInMaui who makes the nice icons, etc.). Actually, I quite like the default interface now, this product is really starting to mature. Great work folks.

[olde]

Originally Posted by MrD

Still no worky in 6.5.7...

I wish I had access to the code... would fix it myself

Oh, another thing that might have helped... A batch file. Yah, shouldn't be necessary, but it might be why its is now fixed for me.

So, use notebook to write a text file with this line of code in it, save it anywhere (I put it in a folder in the root called bat), then rename the file to netlogon.bat, then restart your pc.

net use Z: "\\myserver\windowsshare" /userlde mypassword /persistent:yes

Let me know if this worked for you. If not, drop SageMC, and see if you can see the drives. Sage auto-detects and lists them now alongside all the windows clients on my home network.

[MrD]

I think we have our wires crossed My issue is running a Linux server with DVDs on the linux server and the linux server being able to serve them to a PC client using SMB or UNC paths.

The linux server media folder is configured to be something like "/opt/samba/dvd"

But when the PC client tries to play that file the linux server sends it the "/opt/samba/dvd" path to the PC which makes no sense to the PC.

Sooo the Linux server should be able to "mount" its directory as a samba share (i.e. /opt/samba/dvd => //linuxserver/dvd) and configure the SMB path in the media folder section. This is the part that does not work.