2012-04-07, 10:03
Hello All.
My XBMC system (based on Asus AT5IONT-I) was recently moved from a standalone configuration on an SSD drive in a Frontier Elf to a 2x2TB system in a Gigabyte T5140.
The reason for this - no more room for my file server (damn kids, taking every available space of the house ;-) )
So I've decided to install XBMCBuntu on one of the drives and share my media from it to the rest of my network, which includes a Win7 desktop & laptop, an Xtreamer, some android phones & tablets and a PS3.
So I've managed to cramp all my movies to one of the 2TB drives on an NTFS filesystem, installed XBMCBuntu on the empty 2TB drive with the following partitions:
10GB as /
4GB as SWAP (my system has 4GB ram, and for my understanding - linux likes the swap partition the same size)
all the rest of the 2TB as /home.
I then used XBMCBuntu's file manager to move the files from the NTFS drive to the /home/user/Movies folder, then reinstalled XBMCBuntu with the same partition configuration but this time formatted my other 2TB to EXT4 and mount it as /storage.
Now I've noticed that using XBMCBuntu's file manager, I can't create folders on /storage due to insufficient permissions.
Going to terminal and using "sudo mkdir" works, but then I had to use "sudo chmod a+rwx" on the folder I've created so I can write files to it.
So here comes my questions (as I'm a linux noob) :
1. How can I mount /storage without security restrictions?
I want full read/write permissions to everyone, locally or remotely (which connects to my next 2 questions).
2. How can I share /storage with full rw anonymous permissions over SMB ?
3. How can I share /storage with full rw anonymous permissions over NFS ?
That's for now.
My future plans include finding a way to install JDownloader (or a different download manager) using a web interface to manage my downloads, running Skype on my TV through XBMCBuntu and learning how to remotely control the active session and opening a "background" session.
But that's just for the weekend :-)
Any help would be appreciated.
Shlomi
My XBMC system (based on Asus AT5IONT-I) was recently moved from a standalone configuration on an SSD drive in a Frontier Elf to a 2x2TB system in a Gigabyte T5140.
The reason for this - no more room for my file server (damn kids, taking every available space of the house ;-) )
So I've decided to install XBMCBuntu on one of the drives and share my media from it to the rest of my network, which includes a Win7 desktop & laptop, an Xtreamer, some android phones & tablets and a PS3.
So I've managed to cramp all my movies to one of the 2TB drives on an NTFS filesystem, installed XBMCBuntu on the empty 2TB drive with the following partitions:
10GB as /
4GB as SWAP (my system has 4GB ram, and for my understanding - linux likes the swap partition the same size)
all the rest of the 2TB as /home.
I then used XBMCBuntu's file manager to move the files from the NTFS drive to the /home/user/Movies folder, then reinstalled XBMCBuntu with the same partition configuration but this time formatted my other 2TB to EXT4 and mount it as /storage.
Now I've noticed that using XBMCBuntu's file manager, I can't create folders on /storage due to insufficient permissions.
Going to terminal and using "sudo mkdir" works, but then I had to use "sudo chmod a+rwx" on the folder I've created so I can write files to it.
So here comes my questions (as I'm a linux noob) :
1. How can I mount /storage without security restrictions?
I want full read/write permissions to everyone, locally or remotely (which connects to my next 2 questions).
2. How can I share /storage with full rw anonymous permissions over SMB ?
3. How can I share /storage with full rw anonymous permissions over NFS ?
That's for now.
My future plans include finding a way to install JDownloader (or a different download manager) using a web interface to manage my downloads, running Skype on my TV through XBMCBuntu and learning how to remotely control the active session and opening a "background" session.
But that's just for the weekend :-)
Any help would be appreciated.
Shlomi