Adding to wiki

[dirkomatic]

There are a couple of issues that have come up recently in the forums that probably should be added to the installation guide in the wiki...

I may be missing something silly, but how can we edit/add to the wiki? I would add/change if I could. Do I need added permissions?

Here is what I feel should be added:

1) Mounting a share for DVD isos and other video files. In the words of Martin from the forum:

Code:

Because DVD can't be streamed via the normal GBPVRRecording Service you need to map a network drive from your PCH to a shared folder that contains the source "DVD". It can be tricky because special characters need to to be marked with a back slash (\). I will explain by way of example.

Let's say you have a folder called "D:\My DVD Collection" that you want to play DVDs from using GB-PVR. First you make this a Windows share which I will name dvds because I'm lazy. To set it up add the following lines into script.cgi

mkdir /mnt/D:\\My\ DVD\ Collection
mount -t cifs //mydvd_IP/dvds /mnt/D:\\My\ DVD\ Collection -o username=guest,ro

That looks ugly but you only have to set it up once for each location. Notice that each \ is doubled and each space is also preceded by a \ Other characters that need special attention include [ ] { } ( ) " ' and & If you do use these characters it is probably best to test using telnet avoiding some of these characters is best.

Once you restart telnet.html, you can confirm that it worked via telnet using this command

ls mnt/D\:\\My\ DVD\ Collection/

If it worked you you should see the files root of your collection. You can specify any username and password too the files do not have to be in a guest account.

2) Ticking the "Allow service to interact with desktop"

3) Clarifying the

Code:

username=guest,ro

versus

Code:

username=root,rw

on the mount commands in the scripts and if you use modified scripts (such as the USB scripts by pBS), this could need modified as well.

[mvallevand]

I agree about parts 1 and 2 since the wiki is currently really only a rewrite of my first message in the survival guide and not clarifying any of the subsequent additions or summarizing sub's survival guide (which addresses the interact with desktop issue).

Martin

[Fatman_do]

I may be missing something silly, but how can we edit/add to the wiki? I would add/change if I could. Do I need added permissions?

Private Message user Blader_se to gain wiki privledges.