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I am trying to install the mount shares locally. Following the wiki I got to and it came back with:

You might have missed a step. I have followed the tutorial and works fine.

If you are doing copy and paste then you might want to type it in.

Tom - Obvious question... did you do this as root?

I'm pretty new to this and don't have a clear understanding to what mounting shares locally really means. I assumed that shares are by default mounted locally, but, if not, what is the alternative? Does this have more to do with Fedora/linux than Amahi? I read the wiki(https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Mount_Shares_Locally) and I can tell that they are path to access files on the server without directly using the server file system, but not clear what other methods can be used to mount shares.

Thanks!

The tutorial states to do as root user.

This is only used if you have implemented Greyhole.

Shares are mounted by default and no action is needed.

Not sure what you are asking on trying to do.

Just asking if Tom remembered to run it as root is all.

I'm not trying to do anything in particular. Just tying to build up a good background of understand about Amahi in general. Locally mounting shares was confusing, but from your answer it seems greyhole changes the default mounting of shares when installed.


Thanks

Locally mounting shares was confusing, but from your answer it seems greyhole changes the default mounting of shares when installed.

Not quite.

Greyhole uses Samba in order to replicate files and do it's work. Most use a Linux or Windows client to access/modify files on the HDA. Samba is how files/folders (shares) are accessible outside the server. This is transparent to the user.

However when working directly on the server with files (command line or web app), it's not going through Samba. In order to make it work the same as if using a client external to the HDA, the mount_local_shares is used by Greyhole. It's not needed otherwise.

Just tying to build up a good background of understand about Amahi in general.

Best way is to play around with it. Also keep in mind that Amahi is just a framework integrated with Linux. So most of the functionality is already part of the OS (basically a LAMP server). We provide a web UI for those features making it easy for the average user plus one-click web apps.

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This makes so much sense now. Thank you!!

No problem.