Mount multiple network shares

[s36]

another +1

[jctcom]

In case anyone is interested there are links in my Signature which I used to create my multiple auto mounting shares.

Please note that I am a noobie at this but this is what worked for me. I do believe this method requires an internal hard drive of some sort in order to run the start_app.sh file. You might be able to run it off a USB stick but I am not sure.

Hope this helps you all. The nice thing about this method is that when it is set up you don't have to go to the network are at all. All the shares show up as folders on the hard drive (Or the USB drive if it will work with that?)

Carl.

[turnbuwf]

+1 per Omertrons suggestion. NMT - please fix the simultaneous multiple network drive issue. I preinvested in 3 big network file servers before I bought the A200 and am feeling a bit cheated right now that I cannot use a single instance of YAMJ to interface with all my movies. If you guys can't provide a fix fairly soon I'm faced with the disappointing option of gutting my new equipment and refitting the drives into USB connected cases.

[jctcom]

(03-20-2009 07:08 AM)halfelite Wrote:  It only mounts a share when needs as the power and mem it uses it a lot. I understand no option to auto mount a share. But people that use yamj and the likes are not people looking for a plug and play option. They have already started changing how the pch operates. yamj doesnt come standard so why should the pch support it. the pch does mount a drive when clicks from gaya as intended. You are trying to add something that wasnt intended.

Its already nice that we can use yamj and other use apps. But we cant expect them to work 100% and have full support from pch.

I guess the point that most people are trying to make here is why wasn't it intended. It's just stupidity to think that people aren't going to want to install a jukebox that would need that kind of functionality since people have been doing that (Installing Jukeboxes) since the first NMT's were capable of it???

Carl.

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(04-28-2009 05:33 PM)kraftwerk2020 Wrote:  I have not done this on the PCH since I don't have a hard drive in mine, but the "normal" mount syntax for nfs would look like this:

/bin/mount -t nfs 192.168.178.27:/Filme /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/Filme

You could also play with the mount options, assuming the files are large you could use tcp and up the buffer sizes with -o soft,intr,rsize=16384,wsize=16384,tcp

Hello. Is there a similar option command for SAMBA mounts that would increase the buffer size?

Carl.

[rvanwijngaarden]

(11-26-2008 02:10 PM)jtrosky Wrote:  Omertron - this is how I use multiple NAS drives using NFS with my two Buffalo Linkstation Live NAS devies...

I created the following directories on the PCH hard drive:

/mnt/LSLive-500GB
/mnt/LSLive-1TB

Then, I just mount the NFS filesystems from the NAS devices directly to these directories on the PCH... This way, I don't need to figure out the ever changing (and too confusing) structure of the PCH paths! By doing it this way, I can have both NAS devices mounted all of the time.

I also modified the /share/start_app.sh startup script to mount these at boot-time as well. So, they are ALWAYS mounted and available. I added these lines to the end of my "start_app.sh" script:

Code:

/bin/mount -o ro,nolock,tcp 192.168.1.105:/mnt/disk1/share /mnt/LSLive-500GB
/bin/mount -o ro,nolock,tcp 192.168.1.106:/mnt/disk1/share /mnt/LSLive-1TB

My YAMJ libraries.xml file then looks like this:

Code:

<libraries>
  <library>
      <path>l:/divx/</path>
      <nmtpath>file:///mnt/LSLive-500GB/Divx/</nmtpath>
      <exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/"/>
  </library>
  <library>
      <path>m:/divx/</path>
      <nmtpath>file:///mnt/LSLive-1TB/Divx/</nmtpath>
      <exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/"/>
  </library>
</libraries>

This works great and I don't have to go nuts trying to figure out the new Syabas path formats everytime a new firmware is released!

Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions...

can you help me please?

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=42816

... The start app.sh were can i find him?? or is that a file on the NMT internal hard disk? I don't use a internal hard disk.

[dvbuljan]

+1
Incredible this is not the standard feature in NMT?!
I'm the ex owner of Dune and this was not an issue on it. I had a unified index (Zappiti) from e several sources and everything played without a problem. These two players have same Sigma chip and both use linux, so why is this a problem for PCH?

(I followed the cm0s guide and now it's working OK. Thanks!
Shame that users must use imagination and wits to enable something that should have been there in the first place.)

[Sinyk]

*Bump!*

And now, I, too, must add my "+1" to the list.

Silly me has spent two days trying to get two drives from a stand-alone server to mount so I can get multiple instances of YAMJ to work. (Yes, I need separate instances of YAMJ.) I should have searched these forums in the first instance.

Reading this, and the "Why the PCH only mounts one share" threads, I have a better understanding of the problem (and why it wasn't me failing to setup the shares correctly) - and by problem I mean the argument of a "self-inflicted limitation" by Syabas not to allow multiple shares to be mounted simultaneously.

However, as users we don't actually need the PCH to mount the drives simultaneously. After all, we can only watch one video - or listen to one audio file - at a time on the PCH.

What we need is for third party apps (such as YAMJ) to be able to mount a drive on call in the same way the built-in browser does it. And it shouldn't matter whether the drive is a USB external drive directly connected to the PCH or a drive connected via NETWORK_SHARE. Implement that, and make the "How-to" public for the developers of the various third party apps (such as YAMJ), and you'd have a workable solution.

Yeah, I understand it's probably easier said than done. And I said it because I'm feeling n00bish and thought it might sound like I was thinking outside the box.

[jsolack]

+1 for me as well

[mfsav2]

(11-26-2008 02:10 PM)jtrosky Wrote:  Omertron - this is how I use multiple NAS drives using NFS with my two Buffalo Linkstation Live NAS devies...

I created the following directories on the PCH hard drive:

/mnt/LSLive-500GB
/mnt/LSLive-1TB

Then, I just mount the NFS filesystems from the NAS devices directly to these directories on the PCH... This way, I don't need to figure out the ever changing (and too confusing) structure of the PCH paths! By doing it this way, I can have both NAS devices mounted all of the time.

I also modified the /share/start_app.sh startup script to mount these at boot-time as well. So, they are ALWAYS mounted and available. I added these lines to the end of my "start_app.sh" script:

Code:

/bin/mount -o ro,nolock,tcp 192.168.1.105:/mnt/disk1/share /mnt/LSLive-500GB
/bin/mount -o ro,nolock,tcp 192.168.1.106:/mnt/disk1/share /mnt/LSLive-1TB

My YAMJ libraries.xml file then looks like this:

Code:

<libraries>
  <library>
      <path>l:/divx/</path>
      <nmtpath>file:///mnt/LSLive-500GB/Divx/</nmtpath>
      <exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/"/>
  </library>
  <library>
      <path>m:/divx/</path>
      <nmtpath>file:///mnt/LSLive-1TB/Divx/</nmtpath>
      <exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/"/>
  </library>
</libraries>

This works great and I don't have to go nuts trying to figure out the new Syabas path formats everytime a new firmware is released!

Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions...

what if I do not install the lundman shell?
Is there any other script to do the mounts ?

[starcat]

+1
This is a MUST!

[aangeboden]

+1 !!!!!!

Yeah, I've noticed very late after using Oversight.

[schnitzelhugo]

Hi,
another +1 for this must_have_feature

regards,
hugo