DVD ISO's from a non-windows share

[haripj]

I have my DVD's ripped to a FreeNAS server (which is based on FreeBSD). The FreeNAS mount point is called FreeNAS and contains subfolders like documents, music, photos, movies, etc that have open permissions so all clients on the home network can access them. I was looking at these instructions in the sticky thread -

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.

Obviously I don't have to make a windows share as in the first step above. Assuming all the permissions are correct, can I just mount the network folder directly? e.g. something like

Code:

mount -t cifs //FREENAS/movies -o username=guest,ro

I'm sure that is wrong, but I'm not quite sure how to make this work.
Any suggestions?

[mvallevand]

Because of the difference between the linux and the Windows file systems you always need to mount the "root" folder with the name as GB-PVR sees it in a Windows format. However GB-PVR can see it with cifs and the PCH can see it as NFS.

The example you have won't necessary work from the PCH either unless FREENAS resolves to a real IP using your DNS.

Martin

[ilovejedd]

Similar dilemma. I have an unRAID server where I will be storing my DVD ISO's. I have a separate machine for use as a GB-PVR server.

The GB-PVR folder sees the DVD share as
//192.168.1.100/DVD/

Do I still need to do the whole mount thing or am I good? If I still need to mount it, what's the proper syntax?

[mvallevand]

You always need to link or remap thing since the pch doesn't do dvd via http and it won't understand windows reorted back-slash notation You would need.

mkdir /mnt/\\\\192.168.1.100\\DVD

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/DVD /mnt/\\\\192.168.1.100\\DVD -o username=...,password=...,ro


Martin