DM500s - How to Network Mount?

[kalpikos]

I would like to give more free space to my dm500s for picons and epg.
Could someone tell me how to mount my PC’s hard drive for use with my Dreambox?
My dm500s has a Pli Jade3 image and my pc running win7.
I don't want to record or watch movies, just to use it for picons and epg storage.

Is it possible?
What should I do?

[gianni253]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

If you have a micro$oft windows based pc you have to use cifs file system to exchange files between the two systems.
Provided you have already a Windows share whose name is "my_win_share" and pc's ip address is 192.168.1.15, on your dm500 you have to issue the following commands:

this is to create the mount directory (do it only once !)

mkdir /mnt/netpc

this is to mount the network share:

mount -t cifs -o user=administrator,password=your_admin_password //192.168.1.15/my_win_share /mnt/netpc

That's all mate !

[kalpikos]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Thanks for your answer mate
These commands , how can I give them?
Telnet?
Also , after that, how can I create a link for the folder "var/tuxbox/config/enigma/picon" ?

[luk4asz]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

These commands , how can I give them?
Telnet? < Yes, Telnet or SSH
Also , after that, how can I create a link for the folder "var/tuxbox/config/enigma/picon" ? < maybe ln

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ln_(Unix)

[gianni253]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Thanks for your answer mate
These commands , how can I give them?
Telnet?
Also , after that, how can I create a link for the folder "var/tuxbox/config/enigma/picon" ?

Yes, all command from telnet and, when everything is working fine, you can put the command in a shell script so that you can run it with a button from remote control.

If your mount point is "/mnt/netpc" you can create a "soft" symlink with the following command:

ln -s /mnt/netpc/ /var/tuxbox/config/enigma/picon

[kalpikos]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Is it nesesary to set a username and password on my pc ?
Because I don't have any username or pass.
Im running win7 and I enter to win directly without any pass having administrator's rights.
Should I set some special username or pass in order to mount my hdd?

[smsmstreet]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Hi all .. thanks for the lovely forum here .. ...
i have got a question .. i can mount a nfs share successfully from the telnet with the mount command no problem .. my problem is how can i mange to auto mount it every time i do a restart (p.s i want to use the telnet to do it .. not the web interface ) .. i tried to put it in the /etc/fstab but it didn't do the trick .. so can anyone help me .. thanks

[BM300]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Try using FlashWizard Pro 6.3, it has an option of PC disk sharing.

Just ****** the name for many sites to download from.

[smsmstreet]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

thanks BM300 for ur answer ... but this is not what i want .. i know i can make the share from many other tools .. what i need is .. how to make the share Automount everytime from telnet "shell"

[gianni253]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

.. how to make the share Automount everytime from telnet "shell"

We need informations about your image (E1, E2 ???).
Anyway, assuming you have a dm500 (enigma1) you can write a user script, example "S81mount.sh", write the mount command inside it and save in /var/etc/rcS.d directory.
Don't forget to chmod 755.
Your mount command will be executed at every reboot .

[peremacedonia]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Here som tutorial with pictures i hope will help.

[smsmstreet]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Here som tutorial with pictures i hope will help.

thanks for the file alot but it was taking about mounting from the interface and i need to do it from the shell but thanks again

We need informations about your image (E1, E2 ???).
Anyway, assuming you have a dm500 (enigma1) you can write a user script, example "S81mount.sh", write the mount command inside it and save in /var/etc/rcS.d directory.
Don't forget to chmod 755.
Your mount command will be executed at every reboot .

thanks alot gianni . for ur time and ur answers ..
my sys info is like this .. its dm 500 with enigma 1 installed

i followed ur guide but nothing happened .. First i didn't find any rcS.d dir in the /var/etc so i made it and made a script as u told me and named it S81mount.sh and put my mount as this" mount -t nfs4 nfsserver-name-or-ip:/data2 /mnt/nfs " command there .. but after restart nothing happened . ..

i did test the script alone as i run it worked and mounted the shared forlder till i rebooted the dm only .. after the reboot it didnt auto mount and i had to reRun it again ..

[gianni253]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Ok, so now you only have to find out where your image keeps the S* (autostart) scripts.
If you tell us what is your image we can give you an help ...

[gpaolobvt]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

If you have a micro$oft windows based pc you have to use cifs file system to exchange files between the two systems.
Provided you have already a Windows share whose name is "my_win_share" and pc's ip address is 192.168.1.15, on your dm500 you have to issue the following commands:

this is to create the mount directory (do it only once !)

mkdir /mnt/netpc

this is to mount the network share:

mount -t cifs -o user=administrator,password=your_admin_password //192.168.1.15/my_win_share /mnt/netpc

That's all mate !

Great.
in the past, i executed the same on an old decoder Dm6520, but using different protocol on PC.
On my old windows system i installed SAMBA to let share its folder, then using telnet i executed the mount procedure on the decoder to connect the external device to the decoder.
I used this to record movie from the decoder directly to the PC

The power of Linux.

[smsmstreet]

Re: DM500s - How to Network Mount?

Ok, so now you only have to find out where your image keeps the S* (autostart) scripts.
If you tell us what is your image we can give you an help ...

OpenPLi image for the dm500 based on 1.09 ...
i did another test .. i found in the etc/init.d some srcipts i tried to edit them to put my own but it hit me with this ""cannot create myScript: Read-only file system