Two Duo2s Not Talking to Each Other

[Davidtjm]

Hi,

I’ve two Duo2 boxes located in separate rooms, both of which work fine as standalone but won’t talk to each other. That is, I can’t play movies on Box B through Box A.

Using Filezilla, I can play the movies on either box on my PC by transferring them to a folder on the hard drive. However, I would prefer to watch through the Duo2 boxes.

In the box I want to view the movies I’ve set the Mount options for the target box thus:
Mount Using: autofs
Active: enable
Local share name: vu87
Mount Type: NFS share
Server IP: 192.168.0.87
Server share: /media/hdd/movie
Use HDD replacement: No
Mount Options: rw, utf8,vers=2.0

In the Devices, uShare options on the target box (Hostname: vu87), I’ve set the Share Folders to /media/hdd/movie but when I try to play a movie on this from the viewing box, I get the message:
Directory /media/autofs/vu87/ does not exist.

FTP, Samba, FTP and uShare are all running. Image: 6.4.010, on both boxes which were both Factory Reset and HDDs initialised a few days ago - see attach.

Duo2 Info 3 Jan 2024.jpgNo matter what share options I try on the target box, I always get the same return message.
Any ideas?
Thanks
David

[bellejt]

you do not need to set anything shared.Just make mountings from the boxes to other box.Works fine. So just make a mount on secundairy box without HDD to box with HDD.

[Davidtjm]

If I understood you correctly what you're saying is to mount the details of disk in the box with the movies into the mount in the other box, restart the network etc., then I should be able to watch the movies from that other box. Is that correct?

I have done this and also removed the HDD in that other box, and rebooted both boxes, but I still get the same error message:
Directory /media/autofs/vu87/ does not exist.

It looks to me like an operating system error/fault whereby it always looks for the "remote" movie in the /media/autofs/vu87/ folder.
The remote movies are in the /media/hdd/movie folder and I can see them in this location using Filezilla.

The directory: /media/autofs/vu87/ does in fact exist but it seems to be write protected

Any ideas? Thanks

[bellejt]

do you need to mount the HDD from main box in settings manually or via menu on your slave box ? No need to remove HDD in slave box.Do it trough menu- settings - mounts - network search and you need to see the main box there and HDD.Make a mount and save.If you go in recordings then yoy must get a choice location.Choose the main box directory movie or where you share your recordings

[cactikid]

Should not matter if both boxes have hdd , double check if your box ip has changed as that gives you dont exist.

Each box should have its own ip to get into.

Do you have a password enabled to get into box as i did not as forgot .

[Davidtjm]

I've made sure each box has an exclusive address, one is 192.168.0.87 (master), the other is 192.168.0.52 (slave)
Each box has it own password.
With the disk in the slave box dismounted or even disconnected, I still getr the same result.

Any ideas maybe?

[Davidtjm]

I've tried mounting the HDD in the main box both from the main box and the slave. The mount appears in the Mount Management option.
Again, when I try to watch a movie in the main box, i still get the same rwsult:
Directory /media/autofs/vu87/ does not exist.

Any further ideas maybe? Thanks

[cactikid]

I assume the mount you have checked is the same ip you used and not altered 1 digit which would give you the " does not exist.

Did you retry a network scan to see if anything has changed?

When i could not use Samba i used NFS and mounted my box ip .

Try running a network scan to see all is green.

[Willo3092]

Is the share mounted properly in Mount Manager?

ShareNotMounted.jpg

ShareMounted.jpg

These are my automounts.xml settings for a share on another e2 box:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<mountmanager>
<autofs>
<cifs>
<mount>
<active>True</active>
<hdd_replacement>False</hdd_replacement>
<ip>192.168.0.201</ip>
<sharename>GBUE4K</sharename>
<sharedir>Harddisk/movie</sharedir>
<options>rw,utf8,vers=2.0</options>
<username>root</username>
<password>****</password>
</mount>
</cifs>
</autofs>
</mountmanager>

[bellejt]

do you at least have your ip settings right on both boxes concerning the Gateway ? Thes is wath I see in mounts
Slave
mountslave.jpg


main
mountmain.jpg

[Davidtjm]

Hi Bellejt
I have my ip settings the same as in your mounts.

[bellejt]

directory with Directory /media/autofs/vu87/ is wrong

[Davidtjm]

Hi Willo,

Tks for the reply.
The mounts appear okay - that is, there's no red circle.

Using either NFS or CIFS the mounts also appear ok.

I've modified your script in accordance with the parameters in my own system and loaded the same file in the usr/script - using Filezilla, see photo
It didn't appear in the VIX/Setup/Script folder in the Duo2 box. Do I need to do something else?
Tks
IMG_4879.jpgIMG_4880.jpgIMG_4881.jpg

[Willo3092]

It's not a script, it's the settings in /etc/enigma2/automounts.xml

[bellejt]

why bother with all that stuf ? Just mount from settings menu and restart.It should be working.Do it severall years like that and never had any problem except when samba was not working years ago but now mounted NFS and use samba only to copy my picons from one box to another.

On slave box go into recordings and choose yellow (location) .Then select your masterbox - it shows directorys and choose the recodriding directory your files are in.