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    • thanksajdotcomT
      thanksajdotcom @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said:

      Why are they in Cron rather than in fstab?

      I've had issues with fstab in the past. I found it worked better with a shell script and a cron job but maybe I need to try fstab again.

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      • Reid CooperR
        Reid Cooper
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        I would think that fstab would be the more normal way. You say that you have had issues in the past, what kinds of issues? Did they fail to mount or attempt to mount before the Samba services were available?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          I haven't worked with Plex, but what does Plex do by default?

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          • thanksajdotcomT
            thanksajdotcom
            last edited by

            Ok, so the issue I had before with fstab is that it was trying to mount the partition, which is mapped over Pertino, before the Pertino interface was up, I believe. I have edited my /etc/fstab file and then setup a cron job to tap into it.

            @reboot mount -a
            

            This seems to have taken care of the issue and it's working now. Kind of a h4x0r way to do it, but as long as it works.

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            • thanksajdotcomT
              thanksajdotcom
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              Plex and the mounting of the file shares are totally separate. Plex accesses the shares but has nothing to do with the mounting process.

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              • thanksajdotcomT
                thanksajdotcom
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                Ok, so a new issue I'm having on another server...

                I think it has something to do with the escape character...

                //172.16.255.6/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /media/goflex_dallas    auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0
                //172.16.255.5/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /media/goflex_landcare  auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0
                //172.16.255.6/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /srv/samba/share/goflex_dallas  auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0
                //172.16.255.5/GoFlex\ Home\ Personal   /srv/samba/share/goflex_landcare        auto    defaults,credentials=/home/aj/.smbcredentials   0       0
                

                However, this is how it looks...

                upload-03bef81b-2cea-42f0-a75c-1b815ac85d80

                It's saying there is a syntax error at auto, but I know that's right. The whole command is right. The only difference between this and my other Plex server is the escape character for the space in the share name, which I can't change...

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

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                  • thanksajdotcomT
                    thanksajdotcom @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

                    Where? and what kind of quotes?

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @thanksajdotcom
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                      @thanksajdotcom said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

                      Where? and what kind of quotes?

                      Shouldn't it look something like this?

                      //172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"
                      
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                      • thanksajdotcomT
                        thanksajdotcom @coliver
                        last edited by

                        @coliver said:

                        @thanksajdotcom said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

                        Where? and what kind of quotes?

                        Shouldn't it look something like this?

                        //172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"
                        

                        That's still saying it's wrong too.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @thanksajdotcom
                          last edited by

                          @thanksajdotcom said:

                          That's still saying it's wrong too.

                          Good start, at least.

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                          • coliverC
                            coliver @thanksajdotcom
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                            @thanksajdotcom said:

                            @coliver said:

                            @thanksajdotcom said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

                            Where? and what kind of quotes?

                            Shouldn't it look something like this?

                            //172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"
                            

                            That's still saying it's wrong too.

                            The other thing you can do is this:

                            "//172.16.255.6/GoFlex Home Personal"
                            

                            But you shouldn't need to. Is there any other in-depth logs for this? Or does it just not work?

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                            • thanksajdotcomT
                              thanksajdotcom @coliver
                              last edited by

                              @coliver said:

                              @thanksajdotcom said:

                              @coliver said:

                              @thanksajdotcom said:

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              You are definitely missing the the quotes on some of those.

                              Where? and what kind of quotes?

                              Shouldn't it look something like this?

                              //172.16.255.6/"GoFlex Home Personal"
                              

                              That's still saying it's wrong too.

                              The other thing you can do is this:

                              "//172.16.255.6/GoFlex Home Personal"
                              

                              But you shouldn't need to. Is there any other in-depth logs for this? Or does it just not work?

                              Tried that too. That is not working either, and it's showing as a syntax error. It just doesn't work.

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                              • thanksajdotcomT
                                thanksajdotcom
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                                This did it.
                                http://www.simpit.com/wordpress/?p=626

                                The syntax is:

                                //172.16.255.6/GoFlex\040Home\040Personal
                                
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                                • thanksajdotcomT
                                  thanksajdotcom
                                  last edited by

                                  Beautiful! Everything works as it should now!

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                                  • thanksajdotcomT
                                    thanksajdotcom
                                    last edited by

                                    The issue was the spaces. Even with the escape character, it was not liking the space. Thus you use the escape character backslash and then 040 to symbolize a space.

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                                    • Reid CooperR
                                      Reid Cooper
                                      last edited by

                                      That's interesting. Quotes without the escapes should make that unnecessary. Interesting way to fix it, though.

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                                      • thanksajdotcomT
                                        thanksajdotcom @Reid Cooper
                                        last edited by

                                        @Reid-Cooper said:

                                        That's interesting. Quotes without the escapes should make that unnecessary. Interesting way to fix it, though.

                                        Yeah, the quotes was still showing it as a syntax error.

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