another update:

I changed sleep to 40 and now the folder on USB seems correctly mapped, but it's still not indicized.
is there a way to force a manual rescan?

Hi, i've got another problem. I'm able to mount my shares to the usb stick manually but it doesn't seem to work from the rcS file. I tried changing the sleep times but still no luck. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated!

Thanks for everyones posts on this. It took a bit of trial and error, not really used linux much, but I eventually got the script to mount to my NAS and bind to the USB folder. At first it didn't index but I seemed to have got that working too.

For reference I'm using a wired connection to a ReadyNAS device.

My script was as follows: -


A few notes on where it failed for me before I got it right: -

As others have noted, when you mount to a smb share it must only be to the root share, don't try to a mount to sub folder on the share as it wont work. Use bind to link to the sub folders. On my NAS the video files are located as follows: -
\\192.168.0.2\media\Videos\Films

So I mount to \\192.168.0.2\media, the root share and then bind to the sub folders Videos/Films

The second thing that failed for me was when I created the mount without passing a username as an option, because I don't normally need a username/password to access it. However it was only when I added the option username=guest that it would successfully mount.

The final part that wasn't working for me was indexing of the files. I could browse to the USB and see all the Films on the NAS but I couldn't see them if I went directly into Movies. Now the silly thing was I tried two things at once, so not actually sure what caused the index to kick in.

1) Copied any mp3 file to the USB stick. My thinking being that if it detects a new file on the stick itself, it might initiate the index process.
2) While doing the above I noticed a hidden folder on the USB stick called ".Theater". I was guessing that this is where it stored its index results so I deleted it (well moved it, just in case I need it back).
3) Rebooted the Mini.

Now it could have been that it just needed another reboot or one of the other two steps, but once it came back online it started the index process and I could then see all my films under Movies.

Hope it helps,

Anthony

Hello Anthony,
could you explain to me how you got the script running? I did manage to create the mountnas script, but i have no idea how get it to actually run.

thanks!

you can get the script to work with this:

and in /usr/local/etc/rcS I added the line:


I have the script like this:

And I added the above line to rcS

When I manually perform the two "mount" lines in telnet connection, I don't get any error.
I also tried (manual) to replace sysfs with cifs, but that gives an error 22.
I can reach /tmp/submounts/sda1 without any problem through Telnet.
You guys have a solution? or see an error?

Please help.

Thanks Anthony, for this hint!

For me, deleting the ".Theater" directory was all that was necessary to get the scan started on the next reboot. I do not have other files on the USB stick.

Cheers,
Olaf

Hi everyone,

I've managed to get the share mounted properly by following the examples here, but in my case it will only index once. If I turn off the Mini 2 then turn it back on again, Indexing doesn't work. I have to delete the .Theater directory everytime in order to get the Indexing to work.

Any ideas?

Hi everybody,

I am also trying to mount by USB however I have some question.
Linux is all new for me:

1.) When he language is set on Dutch (in my case) does I still have to use Movies or do I need to use the dutch translation "films" to mount?
2.) Where do I need to put the code in in the usr/local/etc or at usr/local/etc/rcs?
3.) I have also seen some post that were saying to put everything at the end of the script, however when i am checking the RCS script noting is filled in, is that normal or am I missing something.

Thanks in advance, I can imagine that for some guys this is all common knowledge but for me it all a new world.

Regards,
Arjen

Hi everybody.

I was able to have my Netgear NAS mounted via the USB pen.
However indexing is still no working for me, I am struggling which file name I should use because on the forums I see a lot of different entries, like Videos/Movies and Films. My language is set on dutch.
Any one An idea which directory name I should use?

P.s Putting the mount script at the end of the rcS file was not working for me, I had to put it before the line:
echo 2 /tmp/hdd/voulumes/hdd1...........

Your suggestion are higly appreciated!

Is it possible to mount to video folders ?

I have one for tv series and one for movies they both are on the same server just different disks.