After reading some great articles, I've got most features working now including reading photos, mp3 files and videos from my window shares on assorted machines around the house.

However, even though I can see folders and photos from these shares, MythTV Gallery cannot apparantly create the thumbnail images which make browsing the photos so much easier. I'm suspecting that this is a permissions issue though I have enabled full permissions for sharing on those shares. Any helps. I've searched for info on this but have struck out so far. If I've just missed it, I apologize.

Other lingering problems are Games. I'll work on that later.

Make sure /myth/gallery and subfolders are owned by mythtv.

Ok, when I originally created the mountpoint I was root. So I created a new mount point as mythtv and he owns the mountpoint. However, I still cannot get thumbnails. It looks like the hidden folder .thumbcache must be present in each folder. I cannot create such a folder in windows. Is there something I'm missing here?

It will be the permissions on the windows share as it would no doubt store the .thumb... in the directory where the images are located and if the MythTV yuser does not have permission to write the file then you are out of luck.

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Girkers

This is exactly as I see it, yet, I cannot find anyway to create fewer permissions on those directories. They are already open to modification by network users. I have set up the samba connection to authenticate using an admin account on the windows box. Will unix services for windows allow this to work or is there some samba attribute that might work?

TIA

You may have set the samba log in as an administrator, but the owner of the process that is trying to create thumbnails is the mythtv user. Though you have mounted the mount point as admin, mythtv does not have permission still.

You could try creating the mythtv user on your windows box and mount the share with that user ensuring you have the same username password set on both KnoppMyth and Windows.

These are my best guesses.

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Girkers

Thanks, I'll give that a shot tonight.

It was worth a try but it still did not provide thumbnails.

thanks

Bugger

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Girkers

If you use smbmount to mount your remote shares, you have to specify the local user you want the files to appear as:-

I have:

smbmount //winpc/pics /mnt/pics -o user="user%pass",uid="mythtv",rw

You can replace 'user="user%pass"' with the single word 'guest' if you want, and if your windows shares are public writeable.

When you 'ls -l' your mounted directory the owner of the file should show as mythtv.

That should sort it,

-C

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