Forum:Mounting ScreenPlay in Linux via fstab

So this is my second post as I try to make the best use of the SPP in my home network. My issue is that the simple Samba path (i.e smb://ip/screenplay/ or \\ip\ScreenPlay in windows) does not seem to be very stable over long files and I get disconnections or timeouts. However, I though that in a Linux environment I could mount permanently the screen play and be able to do proper file operations like accessing a normal directory. So the partially solution to this is the following line in your /etc/fstab:

//ip/ScreenPlay      /mnt/mediabox   cifs    user=root,guest,gid=500,uid=500,rw,file_mask=0777,dir_mask=0777 0 0

where ip: The ip of the ScreenPlay Pro

After editing fstab and adding this line, just do a mount -a and the SPP will be accessible as a normal directory in your linux providing more reliable file operations (well at least this is my experience since last night). However, there is a problem and to this, any advice is welcome. The only way that you can copy, move etc is via sudo. That means that only root can access the newly mounted directory to write (read is ok). I have run out of ideas but I guess it must have something to do with SPP Samba configuration. More to come later.--Sxwiz 21:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)