Is it possible to share a hard drive between 2 boxes?

[steve1978]

Hi, i have a VU duo with VIX 1.3 on it (dont ask!). i also have a clone ferrari 800s with NewDE 1.0 on it.

The vu has a 1TB drive in it and i dont have a drive in the 800. i would like to be able to watch recorded content from my vu on my 800, is this possible? i have the VU mapped to a PC and i can watch content from the VU on my PC.

If anyone can provide a step by step in doing this i would be much appreciated.

[Larry-G]

i know silverfox used to share a hdd that was mounted in his duo with his solo. not sure about sharing with a DMM though.

[steve1978]

Solved! had to enable nfs in the 800.

[jfk]

Solved! had to enable nfs in the 800.

Hi,

How did you solve this problem?

[silverfox0786]

easy mate one hdd in a nas or in a box

all you do is mount it in network browser and add yes to usee as hdd replacemnt and it will be seen in each box that it is mouned on as media/hdd

i have 1 hdd and my duo et9000 and solo all use the one drive as media/hdd great for sharing recoded stuff on any box

[steve1978]

on newde which is what my crappy 800 uses NFS is disabled by default so it wasnt sharing. when i enabled it it worked first time. (red - green stop start services)

[pooface]

You can also manually set up an nfs share through fstabs ... I find this much more reliable than the mount manager (well, a month back at least )

So, if you had hdd in vix image box, then you can use in any image by manually setting fstab...

[silverfox0786]

You can also manually set up an nfs share through fstabs ... I find this much more reliable than the mount manager (well, a month back at least )

So, if you had hdd in vix image box, then you can use in any image by manually setting fstab...

actually pooface wanted to ask u about that

how is yr fstab setup to do this as you say mount manager is buggy and doesnt always connect every restart

[pooface]

I don't have any problems with the mount manager, apart from the fact that the remount option does not work for me! I find that with bug testing the the machines, I'm restarting the duo a fair bit. In all fairness, if I didn't restart the duo so often, the mount manager would probably work ok.

Anyway, this is what I have added to the /etc/fstab file:

192.168.0.xxx:/media/hdd /media/hdd       nfs        rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,intr     0 0
192.168.0.xxx:/media/hdd2 /media/hdd2       nfs        rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,intr     0 0

I have 2 partitions on my duo hdd, so to get hdd2 on the solo, need to "mkdir /media/hdd2". Then, when I boot up, the box mounts them correctly for me. As for the remounting, I have create a little script in /usr/scripts (and chmod'd to 755):

#!/bin/sh

umount -a
sleep 5
mount -a

I then have a cron job set to run this every day at 5am to ensure it's mounted for me. If I shutdown the duo after 5am, and want to use the hdd before 5am the following morning, I can manually run the script using the script runner in the vix menu.

hth

[silverfox0786]

brillinat poo will give that a go

[jfk]

easy mate one hdd in a nas or in a box

all you do is mount it in network browser and add yes to usee as hdd replacemnt and it will be seen in each box that it is mouned on as media/hdd

i have 1 hdd and my duo et9000 and solo all use the one drive as media/hdd great for sharing recoded stuff on any box

Thanks silverfox0786,
Am having deficulty in doing the above, am using open pli image, vu dou with 1tbhdd, have another 800hd with no hdd. My question is-
1. how do i mount in network browser?
I will appriciate it if you tell me step by step on how to set it up or a tutorial. sorry if this is a silly question mate, I just want to learn something new.
Thanks

[silverfox0786]

menu setup system network

then network browser

click ok on the device u want to use

say the duo

the go to media/hdd

press ok

the setup the mounts most is self explaining

say yes to relace as hdd

and press ok

it will mount

do this to all boxes u want using that hdd

for future go to etc/enigma2 and backup automount.xml thats yr mounts so if u flash u can just add it back and not do that procedure again

[jfk]

menu setup system network

then network browser

click ok on the device u want to use

say the duo















the go to media/hdd

press ok

the setup the mounts most is self explaining

say yes to relace as hdd

and press ok

it will mount

do this to all boxes u want using that hdd

for future go to etc/enigma2 and backup automount.xml thats yr mounts so if u flash u can just add it back and not do that procedure again

Thanks for your simple tutorial it work like charm.
just a quick question, can i mount my usb on the duo and dowload cross epg on it so that i can have 7 days listing as well on the db800hd?
Am not sure if it possible.

[silverfox0786]

yes you can mate thats what i do i have a 100gb hdd on my et-9000 via esata

and enabled cossepg on it then i do mount as above but not enable replace as hdd and lable it USB

then i just go into setting crossepg and direct cross epg location to media/net/USB and yr done

even so if u download epg on one box the other will update and this can be done from any 1 box even a remote box

[jfk]

thanks, i will give it a go this evening and let you know how it goes.

cheers