Help with CIFS mounting

[rockinrichyuk]

Hi.

I have been using E2 with the AZBox Premium for more than a year now and currently using OpenPli 2.1.

I just cannot get CIFS to work and after trying many different versions of tutorials am almost ready to throw in the towel.....unless some kind soul here can help.

I have two windows 7 pc's both in a workgroup and both with shared folders. Neither pc has a password or username.

Could somebody talk me through, line by line how to set up a CIFS mount and then how to mount it permanently (FSTAB????)

Not sure if it makes a difference but the AZBox has a Hard Disk installed internally.

Thanks in advance to anybody that can lend a hand.

Rich

[britzolas]

I think it's from Blagi's tutorial and it worked on friends with win7. I have XP so cannot help more:

Start => Control Panel => Programs and Features => Turn Windows Features On or Off => tick the Media Features, Network stuff, Telnet Client, TFTP => OK.

Next, go to Start => Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Centre => click on Choose homegroup and sharing options => Choose the folders to share. Tick the option to "Stream your pictures, music and videos on my home network".

Click on Change Advanced Sharing Options. You are in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Centre\Advanced sharing settings:

turn on network discovery

turn on file and printer sharing

stop the "Public Folder Sharing".

Go to Media Streaming Options, which is in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Centre\Media streaming options => and there...

Name your media library [your nick, for instance]

Show devices in the local network => Allow all

Media programs etc. etc. => Allowed.

Go back [BACK button]:

leave the 128b encryption to on

turn off password protected sharing

allow Windows to manage homegroup connections.

Then, start your Windows Explorer and

find all the folders you want to share;

right click on each folder and go to Properties;

click on Share tab => click on the little arrow downwards to get the drop down menu and choose Everyone, then click on Add.

Give "Everyone" the permission to READ ONLY and click on Share.

You have more controls/options under Advanced Sharing button in the little window, too. Go to it and check the permissions etc. When you're done, in the main Properties little window, finish by clicking on Apply and Close.