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I'm running ZM on a VM hosted on WHS - WHS has a large drive that I'd like ZM to use for storing all recordings, so I set up an NFS -- I can access it via File Browser with:
smb:192.168.1.50/sharename/

But I can't figure out how to access the folder via terminal. Is there a better way to do this?

* Note: I cannot just share the HDD via VMWare because it's not a linux drive (leastaways, that's what I think the problem is)

mkdir /mnt/smbfs
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.50/sharename /mnt/smbfs -o user=username,password=password

Then look in /mnt/smbfs

agoodm wrote:mkdir /mnt/smbfs
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.50/sharename /mnt/smbfs -o user=username,password=password

Then look in /mnt/smbfs

Awesome! That did work, mostly - I now have the mount in that folder, all visible, but I don't have write access to it for some reason. I've even included the -w flag, but to no avail.

Any ideas how I can mount with read/write permissions? Again, using smb://192.168.1.50/share works perfect -- has read/write, just can't access it except through file browser

This is the guide I used to set up the NFS:
http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2009/12 ... fs-in-whs/

I was able to link the HDD directly to Ubuntu using the fstab, but the changes seem to be local (not adding to the HDD, just a cache of the structure or something) so that's not working. If anyone can help me get Ubuntu correctly hooked up to an NFS, I'd really appreciate it.

Mount the smbfs (for the record, you're mounting smbfs with url you've been using, not an nfs) by putting this in your fstab.
credentials file should include two lines Once that's in the fstab, a "sudo mount /mnt/nameme" should work, and/or it'll come up on reboot.

I'm not sure how vmware deals with shares, as I've been converted to VirtualBox for a while, but VirtualBox works much faster if you use the guest additions and make the host shares accessible to the guest under a different name.

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

The only hiccup I had after that was having to 'chown' the symlink from root to www-data.

Thanks again!