I was wondering.. it is possible to hava all DBs, artworks and so on on an SMB share instead of the SD card? I mean, transfer rate (in my case at least) is higher via LAN, and in this way I could have multiple XBMC clients reading a common db
(yes, I've seen the link on lifehacker, but it is.. an hack, and involves mainly the "stop watching a movie in a room, continue in another room" scenario... I'm thinking about the fact that thru the interface it seems not to be possible for now..)
What do you think about it?
Thanks!
Yes, i already run my setup like that.
(14th Jan, 2013 04:07 AM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, i already run my setup like that.
sorry... would you please share how did you accomplish that?
Thanks!
Thanks, I did read the similar post as mentioned in the first post, but this way the artworks will remain local to the machine.. or I did understand it wrong?
You can also put the thumbnails on a samba or nfs share, as long as they mount before xbmc starts.
(14th Jan, 2013 06:22 AM)CurlyMo Wrote: [ -> ]You can also put the thumbnails on a samba or nfs share, as long as they mount before xbmc starts.
If I put the entire XBMC folders on a SMB share it should work then, provided there is no concurrent access to the DBs.. what folders then can be SAFELY moved onto a share?
Also, I've tried putting an entry in the FSTAB for mounting at boot.. but the syntax seems to be wrong .. anyone managed to do so?
Code:
//server/share /pathto/mountpoint cifs credentials=/home/xbian/.smbcredentials 0 0
with the smbcredentials being:
Code:
username=shareuser
password=sharepassword
domain=workgroupname
Thanks!
This is how my userdata folder looks, the symlinks are all to my smb share:
Terminal
drwxr-xr-x 3 xbian xbian 4096 Jan 14 11:15 Database
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbian xbian 2059 Jan 1 1970 LCD.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xbian xbian 36 Jan 5 21:39 Lircmap.xml -> /media/rpi/Configuration/Lircmap.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbian xbian 391 Jan 1 1970 RssFeeds.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xbian xbian 35 Jan 6 13:09 Thumbnails -> /media/rpi/Configuration/Thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x 9 xbian xbian 4096 Jan 7 00:55 addon_data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xbian xbian 45 Jan 5 21:39 advancedsettings.xml -> /media/rpi/Configuration/advancedsettings.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xbian xbian 40 Jan 5 21:39 guisettings.xml -> /media/rpi/Configuration/guisettings.xml
drwxr-xr-x 2 xbian xbian 4096 Jan 5 21:39 keymaps
drwxr-xr-x 2 xbian xbian 4096 Dec 7 13:42 library
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbian xbian 137 Nov 7 22:29 mediasources.xml
drwxrwxr-x 2 xbian xbian 4096 Dec 6 00:47 peripheral_data
drwxr-xr-x 5 xbian xbian 4096 Jan 1 1970 playlists
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbian xbian 897 Jan 14 02:04 profiles.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xbian xbian 36 Jan 5 21:39 sources.xml -> /media/rpi/Configuration/sources.xml
Code:
//server/share /media/rpi cifs username=....,password=....,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
you are sharing the guisettings too? only works if you have the same skins running on all boxes right?
kk thx! i just destroyed my quartz skin settings, because i used the standardskin on the other pi... bad luck
