Im using KnoppMyth to use MythTV so I can watch some video files in a friendly GUI. I have a fileserver which contains all my video files. I wanna know if there is a way to watch those videos in Myth. The file share is on a Windows 2003 Server box and it requires a username and password to access the data on it. Can someone go about telling me how to do this, if it can be done?

Heres some information:
Serer Hostname: FILESERVER
Share needed: Public
Username needed: Casey Blackburn

Please help me

To connect to a windows share you need to setup samba, or really just the samba client (smbclient), create a directory like /mnt/windows and then mount that share. You should be able to do an apt-get install smbclient. After you create the directory, (mkdir /mnt/windows) then you will want to mount it with something similar to
mount -t smbfs -o username=john,password=mypassword //ip.of.windows.server/sharename /mnt/windows
To get the videos to be recognized in myth this is what I would do, providing you aren't putting/dont' have any videos in the /myth/video directory. I would either rename or del the /myth/video directory and create a symlink to the windows share mount location. Something like this ln -s /mnt/windows/path/to/videos /myth/video. That should work. (Right guys?).

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Sounds like it would work to me, thanks for all the help let me try it out now.

there is a page over on the wiki about how to do this.

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Xsecrets

MythTV doesnt contain the Package SMBClient so I can not install it

see above

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Xsecrets

I Had this trouble on a previous version of knoppmyth
what I did was to download the latest version of samba
from www.samba.org.

When you run the configure script you need to enable support for the smbclient.
Instructions on how to do this are on the site

you could also search for the samba binary on your install of knoppmyth.
maybe in /usr/src ????? not sure and follow the same instructions for installation on samba's website

Steve

just cause knoppmyth doesn't have a program by default does not mean you cannot install it. I know for a fact that smbclient is in apt.so
apt-get update
apt-get install smbclient
will get it for you. this applies to most any other program as well.
http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=UsingSambaHowTo
read that page, the whole page it covers just about any way you could want to connect to a windows box either dir the one you are looking for here is at the end.

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Xsecrets

Thanks XSecrets I am following the guide now

Seriously folks, when someone like Xsecrets who has been around here for a very long time suggests that you go read something, it's usually a major clue. It might not cure your problem in one go, although there's a good chance it will, but even if it doesn't, it will almost certainly clarify your understanding of the problem so that you can ask a better question.

Ok I have followed the guide and now I am getting the Error Message:


EDIT: I recieve this error when trying a smbmount

I've had that problem when trying to mount a share on a win2k3 machine. In the end I had to change a registry setting on the windows box. Try setting these two keys to 0

<insert standard registry warning here>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters\enablesecuritysignature
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanworkstation\Parameters\enablesecuritysignature