[Cialug] Sharing OSX share to Linux-based MythTV

Tony Bibbs tony at tonybibbs.com
Mon Nov 21 20:57:18 CST 2005


Ok, this is the first time I've done something like this on OSX.  I need 
root priv's but can't seem to get it.  FWIW this is a new box...what do 
I need to do?

--Tony


Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> You can change the share name it exports from osx box with.  I don't
> remember off top of my head on the regular desktop if you can do it
> easily, but worst case since you have your share already setup, just
> edit /etc/smb.conf and change the share name.  You'll have to reboot or
> just restart samba services with SystemStarter restart samba.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 
>>I've got a mostly working MythTV box on Gentoo.  I'd like to simply 
>>mount my iTunes library on my OSX box from Gentoo.
>>
>>First problem is samba shares don't seem to like spaces in the name.  Or 
>>, at least, I don't know how to make them work via fstab.  The file 
>>system I'm trying to mount is:
>>
>>//server/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
>>
>>If there is a way to put that in fstab please holla.  I tried a few 
>>different things ("iTunes\ Music", etc) to no avail.
>>
>>My other thought was to simply symlink //server/user/MusicSymLink to the 
>>iTunes folder but that gives errors about a bad share name.
>>
>>Ideas?
>>
>>--Tony
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