Chapter 6 Accessing the Harmonic MediaGrid
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Harmonic MediaGrid Release 4.1
Connecting Clients to Harmonic MediaGrid Using ContentBridge
When ContentBridge mount is specified WITHOUT specifying "ftphome" option, ONLY the
user specified on the ContentBridge line will be allowed, all other users will be rejected.
When ContentBridge mount is specified WITH specifying "ftphome=path/to/home" option,
ONLY the user specified on the ContentBridge line will be allowed, and will start (root
directory) in "path/to/home" if it exists within the MediaGrid. All users other than the
ContentBridge user will be rejected. If the specified path does not exist, the user will typically
see an FTP error stating:
500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/mnt/omfs/<path_to_mediagrid>
When ContentBridge and NATIVE are BOTH specified (unsupported) all user connections will
be rejected, and an error message will be logged to /var/log/messages on the High
Bandwidth ContentBridge like:
pam_omfs: ERR: _configGetServer(): Bad native configurati
Using CIFS on a Windows Client
Follow these steps to access the Harmonic MediaGrid from a Windows client.
To use CIFS:
1. On the taskbar, click the
Start
menu and then click
Run
.
2. In the
Open
text box type the DNS name of the ContentBridge and the share name,
preceded by two backslashes. For example:
\\DNS name\SHARE NAME
Enter a user name and password when prompted. The user name and password must be the
same as those specified in the ContentBridge configuration file for the particular Harmonic
MediaGrid file system.
Using CIFS on a Macintosh Client
Follow these steps to access the Harmonic MediaGrid from a Macintosh client.
To use CIFS:
1. Select
Connect to Server
from the
Go
menu on the Apple Desktop.
2. Type the following:
smb://
<ContentBridge Fully Qualified Domain Name>
For example, if the ContentBridge’s fully qualified domain name is “
clb01220.mediagrid.com
”,
enter “
smb://clb01220.mediagrid.com
”.
3. Enter the user name and password used to access the Harmonic MediaGrid system.
4. Select the volumes to mount.
Follow these instructions if you would rather access the Harmonic MediaGrid from a Macintosh
client using the command line.
The following are two methods of accessing the Harmonic MediaGrid:
This method requires the password to be specified in the command line:
mount -t smbfs //username:password@<CLB>/<SHARE NAME> /PATH/TO/
MOUNT/POINT
This method allows for interactive mode (enter password when prompted):
mount -t smbfs //username@<CLB>/<SHARE NAME> /PATH/TO/MOUNT/POINT
The user name and password used must be those specified in the ContentBridge
configuration file used to export the particular Harmonic MediaGrid file system.
