[Cialug] Sharing OSX share to Linux-based MythTV

Daniel Wittenberg daniel-wittenberg at starken.com
Mon Nov 21 21:07:01 CST 2005


Or you can do sudo -s and get a root shell that way too

Dan

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:59 -0600, Tom Pohl wrote:
> 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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