[Cialug] Sharing OSX share to Linux-based MythTV

[Tom Pohl]

sudo passwd root
to set root's password and then you can su like any other box :)

-Tom

On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:

> Ok, this is the first time I've done something like this on OSX.  I  
> need root priv's but can't seem to get it.  FWIW this is a new  
> box...what do I need to do?
>
> --Tony
>
>
> Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>> You can change the share name it exports from osx box with.  I don't
>> remember off top of my head on the regular desktop if you can do it
>> easily, but worst case since you have your share already setup, just
>> edit /etc/smb.conf and change the share name.  You'll have to  
>> reboot or
>> just restart samba services with SystemStarter restart samba.
>> Dan
>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>> I've got a mostly working MythTV box on Gentoo.  I'd like to  
>>> simply mount my iTunes library on my OSX box from Gentoo.
>>>
>>> First problem is samba shares don't seem to like spaces in the  
>>> name.  Or , at least, I don't know how to make them work via  
>>> fstab.  The file system I'm trying to mount is:
>>>
>>> //server/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
>>>
>>> If there is a way to put that in fstab please holla.  I tried a  
>>> few different things ("iTunes\ Music", etc) to no avail.
>>>
>>> My other thought was to simply symlink //server/user/MusicSymLink  
>>> to the iTunes folder but that gives errors about a bad share name.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>> --Tony
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