entouch said:
I tried it, and it works partly?
It does tell me it was successful, but when I go look into the folder there is nothing in there: no recordings???
Has this to do with the mounting of your pc-hd? If so, how you do this?
Cheers.
I'm going to assume that your PC is 192.168.1.2; that you have created a share called dbox and that you have created a user on the PC with the name dream.
You'll need an empty directory on the Dreambox to mount the share on. I created /media/shares, and then /media/shares/dbox. That's just my personal preference; you can mount it where you like as long as you know where it is and it is an empty directory.
Just substitute your actual values for my example ones.
There are two ways to mount the share on the Dreambox - in a Telnet session, or permanently by editing /etc/fstab.
To mount it in a Telnet session, the command, using the values above, is
mount -t cifs -o user=dream //192.168.1.2/dbox /media/shares/dbox
No news is good news. If you don't get an error message, it has worked. Change to /media/shares/dbox, and the contents of the shared PC directory should be displayed.
Better still is a boot time mount using /etc/fstab.
If you are happy using vi (unlike me - I prefer joe which isn't included in Gemini!) you can edit this directly in the Telnet session. Otherwise, FTP it to your PC, edit it in your favorite text editor and FTP it back.
I have experimented with fstab for the last few weeks; this version is simpler than that which I posted here before, and works just as well.
Add the following line to /etc/fstab (all one line, of course)
//192.168.1.2/dbox /media/shares/dbox cifs user=dream 0 0
Now the share will be mounted at boot time (as long as your PC is turned on).
Since the execution of fstab on the Dreambox is silent, you'll need to test whether it works manually. From a Telnet session, give the command
mount
This will give you a list of your current mounts
now give the command
mount -a
No news is good news, but if anything can't mount, you'll get an error message. This is how I determined just how lean I could make the line in fstab.
Hope you understand this, and good luck.