04-25-2018, 10:57 AM
Hi,
for the network share bit of your post, I have the exact same configuration and this is how I did it:
If it worked, you should see the files from your hard drive connected to the router in your pi /mnt/networkShare folder.
If you want to automatically mount it at reboot go ahead with the following:
in the file, add the following line
Save changes and exit
This works for me as I don't have authentication on my internal network shared hard drives.
Test the configuration with
If it worked, you should see the files from your hard drive connected to the router.
Then execute:
From the grafical menu select 3 Boot Options > B2 Wait for Network at Boot > Yes
Exit selecting Finish.
Now basically your shared hard drive is mounted into /mnt/networkShare folder.
You can point your PMS libraries to this folder :)
for the network share bit of your post, I have the exact same configuration and this is how I did it:
Code:
mkdir /mnt/networkShare
chmod 777 /mnt/networkShare
sudo mount -t cifs //YOUR_ROUTER_IP_ADDRESS/SHARED_FOLDER /mnt/networkShare
If it worked, you should see the files from your hard drive connected to the router in your pi /mnt/networkShare folder.
If you want to automatically mount it at reboot go ahead with the following:
Code:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
in the file, add the following line
Code:
//YOUR_ROUTER_IP_ADDRESS/SHARED_FOLDER /mnt/networkShare cifs username=root,password= 0 0
Save changes and exit
This works for me as I don't have authentication on my internal network shared hard drives.
Test the configuration with
Code:
sudo mount -a
cd /mnt/networkShare
ls -lth
If it worked, you should see the files from your hard drive connected to the router.
Then execute:
Code:
sudo raspi-config
From the grafical menu select 3 Boot Options > B2 Wait for Network at Boot > Yes
Exit selecting Finish.
Now basically your shared hard drive is mounted into /mnt/networkShare folder.
You can point your PMS libraries to this folder :)