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How to point MinimServer at a SMB network share for its music directory - rhoering - 30-11-2014 17:58
NOTE: Please remember this worked for me but that your mileage may vary.
Check to see if you have cifs-utils installed.
To do so I verify if the mount helper is present in /sbin:
$ ls -al /sbin | grep mount.cifs
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 34568 Jun 27 2013 mount.cifs
If this returns nothing then install cifs-util:
$ sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Create and permission the mount point directory:
$ sudo mkdir /path/to/mountPoint/smbmusic
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/mountPoint/smbmusic
$ sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /path/to/mountPoint/smbmusic
Mount the SMB share on the mount point you created.
If the share has guest access I use:
$ sudo mount -t cifs //IP-address-or-hostname/music /path/to/mountPoint/smbmusic -oguest
If the share is secured the general command is:
$ sudo mount -t cifs //IP-address-or-hostname/music /path/to/mountPoint/smbmusic –ousername=userName,workgroup=workGroup,password=passWord
Now you can add your mounted SMB share to MinimServer.
In the example I entered "/path/to/mountPoint/smbmusic"