Before I dive in blindly, I thought I'd put out the call for experiences thus far.

 

I'm contemplating a second Pro build at the moment, and would like to have my networking access simplified by connecting to one share and having it span more than one server.

 

Thus:

Server1 has a share called media

Server2 has a share called media with different data (i.e. not a backup of Server1)

 

I want to use my WDTV media player to access all of my media without having to log in to two different servers and try to find the file I want by trial and error.

 

Has anyone done this, and if so what are your experiences?

 

 

It should be possible, though I do not know how to do it off hand.  You are going to have to mount server 2's media directory into server 1's media directory.

 

Do a search on the forum and see what you come up with.

Did a search, but not for that method.  Of course it makes sense and should work.

 

Thanks for the suggestion.

Mount using nfs. You'll have to add the mount command to a go script to do on reboot (ensuring server 1 is up before doing the command)

 

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With xbmc is easy, but i think he meant smb2? It was mention from Tom! Have one share between 2 different servers..

 

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Curious to see how this develops.  I'm planning 2 unraid vms in a Norco. Parts are on order so I'm a few weeks away.

This seems to be related to what you want to do:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14784.0

Yes, I was hoping for SMB, no NFS... but I can go that route if it's going to give me the results I am hoping for (multiple servers attached to a single "media" share)

 

Will keep digging, and when I get some time I'll throw a basic UnRAID system together to test before I go ahead with a second full build.

 

Thanks for the hints thus far.

Would mapping three network drives work? One for each tower and the third linking the two mapped network drives.

After multiple attempts, I only got it working by re-sharing  a mount point from server #2.

 

I used mount -t smbfs -o user=bman,password=mypassword //server2/television2 /mnt/user/television

 

This seemed to work okay, but on my WDTV box I had to go back and forth several times for all the files in all the subdirectories of server #2 to show up in the media list.

 

 

Since then I have upgraded server #1 to 5.0rc8a and two things are happening:

1) smbfs is no longer supported, so I am trying cifs

 

2) whether a result of smbfs missing or not, I cannot see any subdirectories from server#2, only files that are in the root of the share.

 

Does anyone know if this is normal?  And if so, is the best way to "correct" it to make multiple mounts for each subdirectory that exists on server #2?