silvine wrote:

So...What's the current status on this? I've kind of messed up a little while trying to solve this through mounting using the gui and netmount.conf .

I'm using SMB, the share is /video/Serier and /video/Filmer . This is what happens when trying to mount through SSH to find the correct command.
root ~ # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.15/video ~/videos
mount: mounting //192.168.1.15/video on /storage/videos failed: Invalid argument
root ~ # mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.15/video/Serier/ ~/videos
mount: mounting //192.168.1.15/video/Serier/ on /storage/videos failed: No such device

So...kind of stumped here Anyone able to lend a hand? I'm using the most current version of Eden, and the plan is to move couch potato and sick beard onto the media center...

Cheers!

Tiwas wrote: For SMB shares, no need to mount anything..

Example to add a SMB VIDEO share :

Videos
Add Videos
Browse
Choose: Windows network (SMB)
WORKGROUP
Choose: <distant SMB server name> (ex: NAS name)
Choose: <distant shared folder name>
OK
Appears auto created link like : smb://<SMB server name>/<Distant shared folder name>
Enter name for media source
OK

Note:
To accelerate SMB share, replace in SMB link syntax :
smb://<SMB server name>/...
by
smb://<SMB server IP>/...

Jean-Max,

this works fine until you want to use sabnzbd or sickbeard... both of them require you to use mounts.

Tiwas wrote:
Try :

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.15/video ~/videos -o if you call command from inside /configfiles/autostart.sh file

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.15/video /videos -o if you call command from root

Make sure folder names are exact (case sensitive)

Jean-Max wrote:
Tried this, but got the following error "There are filesystem-specific -o flags."

Tiwas wrote: Excuse my error : -o if for options (ex: '-o guest' to bypass security)

I don't understand why classic command gives error :
mount -t cifs //server's IP/shared folder /path_to/mount client folder

Thanks - that worked! I'll change to use autostart.sh instead of netmounts.conf in anticipation of the new version

Do I need to set any flags on autostart.sh ? 755?

Jean-Max wrote:
Sorry for bugging you...I upgraded to the latest nightly to get support for autostart.sh

It's now in /storage/.config . So, it doesn't mount on bootup, and if I try to execute the file I'm getting an error again (on something which worked before upgrading)...

This is what I'm getting:
I'd really appreciate the help, as now sick beard and coach potato will no longer work...Cheers!

Thanks! That saved my hide
DejaVu wrote:

DejaVu wrote: It's curious that for NFS share I successfully built in autostart.sh file, it's not necessary to re-create at each boot, the local mount-link folder ..
Why this difference between SMB and NFS ?

Thanks

I'm sorry , can anyone help me with this?

I've read the entire thread, yet still unable to make this work .

I'm using OpenELEC-Ultra.x86_64-devel-20120309130449-r10068 (latest of now).

My server is Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit.

I can mount manually

I created autostart.sh in .config

However, whenever I put in this command:

#! /bin/sh
(sleep 30; \
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/NewsBin /storage/NewsBin -o username=myusername,password=mypassword \
)&

I get this:

-sh: ./autostart.sh: not found

If I just babble something in there, just plain text, I can read the file!

Anyone know why that is??

Hello,

After creating autostart.sh and before rebooting, had-you made the file executable ?


root ~ # chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh

To answer for dberliner, who has now fixed his problem:
The issue was with his samba share authentication - Requiring a username without a password.

Changing the format of DejaVu's mount command to:
mount -t cifs -o username=user,rw //192.168.0.3/TVShows1 /media/TVShows1

..worked without issue

Yes it worked without issue. But I seem to be losing the mount after a long period of inactivity or after I rebooted the system.. Don't know why. I then can regain it by making autostart.sh executable again using the chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh command.

I wonder why I need to use that command over and over again... any thoughts? I'm not tampering with the file!

Just a heads-up: when mounting via autostart.sh mount to the root of the NAS/Share.

My netmount.conf looked like:
cifs | //192.168.0.192/Volume_1/media/tv shows | /storage/nastv
cifs | //192.168.0.192/Volume_1/media/music | /storage/nasmusic
cifs | //192.168.0.192/Volume_1/media/movie | /storage/nasmovies
cifs | //192.168.0.192/Volume_1/media/downloads | /storage/nasdownloads

I now have the autostart.sh looks like:
#! /bin/sh
(sleep 30; \
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.192/Volume_1 /storage/nas -o username=guest
)&

In Sabnzbd and Sickbeard/Coutchpotato I just set the paths to /storage/nas/media/movie instead of /storage/nasmovies. Works like a charm

I am trying to the same with AFP to my Time Capsule, but it won't quite work.

Doing this:

! /bin/sh
(sleep 30; \
mount -t afp://user:password@server_ip/Data/folder /storage/TimeCapsule
)&

results in this error:

root ~ # mount: can't find /storage/TimeCapsule in /etc/fstab

?? What seems to be the problem??

I never used afp, but the mount syntax is :
mount -t <type> <source/device> <mount_point>

So in your case, you're missing the type option, I guess it should be something like :

Yes, that solved the fstab part.

But doing this again with the correct protocol added, results in:

What to make of this? The "tv" folder exists both on the openelec host and on my TimeCapsule.

I am not really sure that the mount command in OpenELEC (which used busybox) does support the AFP protocol.

Can't you use the AFP support in XBMC ?