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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Looking for help with a script to automate VLC Post 302321553 by uncertain on Monday 1st of June 2009 12:41:01 PM
Old 06-01-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by cambridge
NFS is your answer. With NFS you mount up a remote folder as if it were a local one. Then your script just has to give the find command a couple of folders to find your video files, rather than just the one, e.g.

Code:
find ~/Videos/Server1 ~/Videos/Server2 -name '*.avi' -o -name '*.mpg' -o -name '*.mp4' -o -type f -size +20M | etc...

By the way you don't need a cd before your find command because you're providing a full pathname to find. Context is only important if you're using a relative pathname.
I actually decided to go with NFS somewhere in the mix. After looking up what all goes into launching VLC in streaming mode, trying to do it remotely (after somehow determining whether I need to launch VLC remotely or locally) and then launching it locally to pick up a network stream and then blah blah blah.. Yes, NFS seemed the way to go for exactly the reason you describe. The remote videos folder is just another folder on my desktop, and gets indexed just the same.

I'm surprised you caught the 'cd' thing in the script. I'm even more surprised it never registered with me. It's a remnant from when I first started writing it and I was using 'locate' instead of 'find'.

I'm actually off now to post a thread somewhere about fine-tuning NFS transfer speeds. I'm having a bottleneck somewhere with NFS and SSH transfers, and playing these videos over an NFS tunnel can be a less than enjoyable experience.

Anyhoo, thanks for the advice. Cheers!
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

nfs_selinux

nfs_selinux(8)						 NFS SELinux Policy documentation					    nfs_selinux(8)

NAME

       nfs_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for NFS

DESCRIPTION

       Security Enhanced Linux secures the NFS server via flexible mandatory access control.

BOOLEANS

       SELinux	policy	is customizable based on the least level of access required. SELinux can be configured to not allow NFS to share files. If
       you want to share NFS partitions, and only allow read-only access to those NFS partitions, turn the nfs_export_all_ro boolean on:

       setsebool -P nfs_export_all_ro 1

       If you want to share files read/write you must set the nfs_export_all_rw boolean.

       setsebool -P nfs_export_all_rw 1

       These booleans are not required when files to be shared are labeled with the public_content_t or public_content_rw_t types. NFS	can  share
       files labeled with the public_content_t or public_content_rw_t types even if the nfs_export_all_ro and nfs_export_all_rw booleans are off.

       If you want to use a remote NFS server for the home directories on this machine, you must set the use_nfs_home_dirs boolean:

       setsebool -P use_nfs_home_dirs 1

       system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.

SEE ALSO

       selinux(8), chcon(1), setsebool(8)

dwalsh@redhat.com						    9 Feb 2009							    nfs_selinux(8)
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