How to: Bookmark Network Folder

[aasoror]

the drive is labeled: seagate
the Windows assigned drive letter is: F

so yes, under properties of the drive, it states the share name is: seagate (F)

OK, from your windows PC change the name to just "seagate" or change the AIOS script to "seagate (F)"

[glitz521]

ok thanks. I changed it on the Windows machine. Now- i think i am making some progress but still getting:

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~ # chmod +x /usr/local/etc/share_favs/f02nas1.sh
~ # /usr/local/etc/share_favs/f02nas1.sh
192.168.1.10 is alive!
ln: /tmp/nfs/Movies/movies: Operation not supported
ln: /tmp/nfs/Movies 2/movies-kids: Operation not supported
ln: /tmp/nfs/TV Shows/tvshows: Operation not supported
ln: /tmp/nfs/Home Videos/homevideos: Operation not supported

[glitz521]

OK, even with the Operation not supported error as shown above, I checked the aios and the folders are now bookmarked under NFS!! it worked Thanks!!

when i had the external hooked up to my windows 7 machine, I believe the share name didnt include the drive letter by default. IDK. Working now though. Thanks again, aasoror

[aasoror]

OK, even with the Operation not supported error as shown above, I checked the aios and the folders are now bookmarked under NFS!! it worked Thanks!!

when i had the external hooked up to my windows 7 machine, I believe the share name didnt include the drive letter by default. IDK. Working now though. Thanks again, aasoror

Thanks for the update glitz521, the trick was to look for the proper share names using the AIOS network browser, this would tell you which share names needs to be used in the script.

Enjoy your AIOS.

[efros]

Just piping up here to highlight an issue I've seen several times with NFS shares. Every now and then when I switch on my AIOS for some reason it will fail to mount my NFS shares with a "cannot allocate memory" error. When viewed from the telnet window and the fs0 file is executed the share is recognized as 'alive' and then it fails to mount due to this allocation error. The fix, which I have found to work 100% of the times it has happened, is to reboot everything on the network involved in the shares, i.e. the AIOS, the sharing computer and the router. It's irritating but easily remedied.

[Dawood]

I am running version 3.4.3.0 and trying to connect to a Windows 7 share. I have no issues connective via Network->My_Shortcuts. When using the following fs02nas1.sh:

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#!/bin/sh
SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

NAS1_IP="192.168.1.70"
NAS1_SHARE="iso"
NAS1_MEDIA_FOLDER1="MKVs"
MOUNT_NAS1_SHARE="NAS1"
MOUNT_NAS1_MEDIA_FOLDER1="Movies1"

# Create nfs mount folder if not present
mkdir -p /tmp/nfs

# COPY THIS BLOCK FOR EVERY SERVER YOU WANT TO LINK TO
######################################################
TIMEOUT=20
mkdir -p /tmp/ramfs/volumes/$MOUNT_NAS1_SHARE
while [ $TIMEOUT -gt 0 ]; do
    if ping $NAS1_IP; then   
        mount -t cifs //$NAS1_IP/$NAS1_SHARE -o rw,iocharset=utf8,username=(user), password=(password) /tmp/ramfs/volumes/$MOUNT_NAS1_SHARE
        ln -s /tmp/ramfs/volumes/$MOUNT_NAS1_SHARE/$NAS1_MEDIA_FOLDER1 /tmp/nfs/$MOUNT_NAS1_MEDIA_FOLDER1
        TIMEOUT=0
    else
        TIMEOUT=$((TIMEOUT - 1))
    fi
done
##########################################################

IFS=$SAVEIFS

I get the the following error:

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/usr/local/etc/share_favs # /usr/local/etc/share_favs/fs02nas1.sh
192.168.1.70 is alive!
mount: Can't find //192.168.1.70/iso in /etc/fstab

What am I doing wrong?

[aasoror]

What am I doing wrong?

There is no space between username and password here

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username=(user), password=(password)


should be

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username=(user),password=(password)


a side note, since you are on official firmware the script wont get auto executed at startup, you will need to either switch to the latest semiofficial firmware or add the following line in your /usr/local/etc/rcS

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/usr/local/etc/share_favs/fs02nas1.sh &

Best of luck,

[J.Waltrip]

I am running R21, and do not see /usr/local/etc/share_favs/f02nas1.sh

1. Is this instruction valid for that version of firmware?
2. Will this instruction let me index my NFS mounts like local drives?

[aasoror]

I am running R21, and do not see /usr/local/etc/share_favs/f02nas1.sh

1. Is this instruction valid for that version of firmware?
2. Will this instruction let me index my NFS mounts like local drives?

1. yes, f02nas1.sh is not there, the "vi" command creates it.
2. nope, if you want to index NFS shares you need to have ext3 storage on the AIOS and mount the NFS shares there (instead of /tmp/nfs)

[J.Waltrip]

OK.... So I can install a small SATA, and format it as EXT3, then mount the stuff there?