Mounting dvds fails

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to mount a windows directory for my DVD's. Its location is D:\dvds and the share name is dvds. So I executed the following commands from telnet:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/D:\\dvds
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.76/dvds /mnt/D:\\dvds -o username=guest,ro

Unfortunately this gives the following error:

Code:

mounting \\192.168.1.76\dvds on /mnt/D:\dvds failed

What am I doing wrong?

Chris

[mvallevand]

Your syntax is correct so the problem is likely with the setup of the share itself.

Martin

[Sheik Yerbouti]

OK, I'll look into that. Can I name the directory on the PCH anything I want, in stead of the same name as in Windows? I would like name it /mnt/dvds.

Chris

[mvallevand]

Can I name the directory on the PCH anything I want, in stead of the same name as in Windows? I would like name it /mnt/dvds.

I wish, but Windows has this stupid drive letter concept that they never removed.

Martin

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Yeah, I know, but for the mvpmc share I don't have to add the drive letter in the directory name on the PCH. So why do I need this for the DVD directory? You would expect it doesn't matter what you name it on the PCH, as long as it mounts to the right place on the Windows machine.

Chris

[mvallevand]

I can't ignore the drive letter, GB-PVR will pass the file name as

D:\dvds\Frank Zappa\Apostrophe.iso

I don't understand the concern, you have to do it everyday in Windows and this a one time configuration.

Martin

[Sheik Yerbouti]

No concern, just curious Thanks for explaining.

Chris

[mvallevand]

Actually it is probably clearer if the share isn't in the root

For example if you had your DVDs like this

"C:\Users\Chris\Documents\My DVD Collection" which you shared with the name dvds the PCH mounting would be

mkdir /mnt/C:\\Users\\Chris\\Documents\\My\ DVD\ Collection
mount -t cifs //ip/dvds /mnt/C:\\Users\\Chris\\Documents\\My\ DVD\ Collection ...

Martin

[Sheik Yerbouti]

It's working, thanks! The share wasn't setup right in Vista. Great job, guys.

Chris

[Blue Racer]

I'm trying to mount a directory to play iso files through gbpvr.
I believe I have my share directory setup correctly because I can actually watch the movie through pch. Here are the lines I added to script.cgi:

mkdir /mnt/\\bedroompc\\Movies
mount -t cifs //bedroompc/Movies /mnt/\\bedroompc\\movies -o username=guest,ro

The iso files are not on my gbpvr computer. They are on another computer with a network name of bedroompc. The iso files are in C:\movies directory. In the gbpvr config I added the directory //bedroompc/movies to my Video library directories. I am still unable to get the movies to run in gbpvr. I tried to telnet with the ls command but it does not show any files. Could someone take a look at the lines I added to my script to see if I have anything wrong. Thanks!