Mounting Network Drive?

KylieGS · 2018-04-17 17:45:50

I want to be able to load files from a network fileserver without first transfering them across. Is there a way to mount a Folder/Drive on a remote server?

loqs · 2018-04-17 17:59:39

What protocols does the fileserver allow access to those files with?

KylieGS · 2018-04-17 19:40:24

loqs wrote:

What protocols does the fileserver allow access to those files with?

Currently just sftp but it's my machine so I can set it up however is needed to get this to work.

The main sort of thing this'll be used for will be for films and music I want available to play ( rather than synced as I do with small documents )

loqs · 2018-04-17 20:03:32

nfs or samba would be the most common network filesystems and both the server and client configuration including mounts is covered on the wiki.

seth · 2018-04-17 20:40:33

Sidenote: mpv, vlc, mplayer ... will play http streams just fine and that's usually more efficient than playing from a remote FS.

KylieGS · 2018-04-17 22:40:51

seth wrote:

Sidenote: mpv, vlc, mplayer ... will play http streams just fine and that's usually more efficient than playing from a remote FS.

Could you elaborate on that please? How do I setup the remote server to provide the stream?

Last edited by KylieGS (2018-04-17 22:41:08)

seth · 2018-04-18 06:10:52

Just setup an http server, lighthttp or nginx will do, then play the url

mpv http://192.168.0.2/path/to/file

You can just symlink your media paths to /var/www/default/ if you don't want to expose their entire parent directory (w/o fiddling w/ http access lists)

x33a · 2018-04-18 07:30:04

Be sure to setup SSL if you want to go the HTTP route.

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