A couple questions

[David Ondzes]

Roku guys or others, I would appreciate some help.

1) I am unable to write to the smb shares the hd1000 mounts. What is
the best way to debug the problem ? The shares are on a SnapServer and
my other machines have no problem writing to them.

2) Is there to do vga over long distance (50 feet) ? I would like to
avoid turning on my FP to do development testing and want to run some
kind of cable to a KVM switch.

[David Ondzes]

Can anyone give me a hand here :)

In the mean time I have resorted to mounting the shares via nfs and
creating a mount point on /tmp. Which has it own problems. The mount
command takes about 5-7 minutes to return, why ? Is there a better
place to create a mount point ? Is there anyway to modifiy / (ie
cramfs) ?

Post by David Ondzes
Roku guys or others, I would appreciate some help.
1) I am unable to write to the smb shares the hd1000 mounts. What is
the best way to debug the problem ? The shares are on a SnapServer and
my other machines have no problem writing to them.
2) Is there to do vga over long distance (50 feet) ? I would like to
avoid turning on my FP to do development testing and want to run some
kind of cable to a KVM switch.

[Dave Dodge]

Post by David Ondzes
In the mean time I have resorted to mounting the shares via nfs and
creating a mount point on /tmp. Which has it own problems. The mount
command takes about 5-7 minutes to return, why ?

DNS timeouts? Is the NFS server running some sort of local packet
filter that might be blocking the mount-related traffic? It should
only take a few seconds at most for the mount to come up. See details
here of how I got it working:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical/1679

If you're doing all that and it's not working quickly, you might
try running tcpdump on the NFS server and see what it's trying to do
when the mount is requested.

Post by David Ondzes
Is there a better place to create a mount point ?

tmp is probably the easiest place. If you must have it somewhere else,
you might be able to use the bind mount trick described here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical/67

But note that you'll have to build the "mount" command from util-linux
yourself, because I don't believe the shipped version supports the
-bind option.

-Dave Dodge

[David Ondzes]

Post by Dave Dodge

Post by David Ondzes
In the mean time I have resorted to mounting the shares via nfs and
creating a mount point on /tmp. Which has it own problems. The mount
command takes about 5-7 minutes to return, why ?

DNS timeouts? Is the NFS server running some sort of local packet
filter that might be blocking the mount-related traffic? It should
only take a few seconds at most for the mount to come up. See details
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical/1679

Dave's suggestions did the trick. Starting the port mapper
(/sbin/portmap) made my nfs mounts happen in seconds instead of
minutes. Thanks Dave !