Problems with sharing USB drives in OpenATV 7.5.1 on home network at Octagon SF8008 4K Twin receiver

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  • Hello,

    I have an Octagon SF8008 4K Twin receiver with two boot systems: OpenATV 7.5.1 and OpenPLi 9.1. When using OpenPLi 9.1, USB drives connected to the receiver are seamlessly visible and mappable on my home network. The OpenPLi system works perfectly in this regard, and the problem with sharing drives on the network does not occur at all.

    In contrast, when I run the device on the OpenATV 7.5.1 system, the disks are not visible on the network, despite the correct FTP connection to the receiver in both OpenATV and OpenPLi. It seems that OpenATV requires additional settings or configurations that are not needed in OpenPLi.

    Has anyone had a similar problem? What settings in OpenATV need to be changed to properly share USB drives on a home network? Maybe there are some plugins or solutions that can help solve this problem? I would appreciate any suggestions


    :thinking face: Roman

  • Thanks for reply -Going deep inside all parameter settings I can present for this stage following settings


    I checked Samba Client Installed Samba Server Enabled


    In “network settings”

    Current Status: Installed


    AutoFS -in

    Chrony- in

    Cron- in

    FTP -in

    Inadyn -in not installed

    MiniDLNA -not installed

    NFS -in

    OpenVPN -installed

    SABnzbd -not installed

    Samba Client -installed

    Samba Server -in

    SATPI -installed

    ShelllnABox -in

    SSH -in

    Telnet -in

    uShare-not installed


    In "mount editor " for connected hard drive I have the following settings

    Mounting with FSTAB (mount at boot)

    Active Disable

    Local share name sdc8008A

    Mounting type CIFS share

    Server IP 192.168.1.141

    Server share sd1
    Use as HDD swap Yes

    Mounting options rw,utf8tversa2.0

    Username root

    Password ****

    The password is already set up and most importantly if I didn't have the network password set up I wouldn't be able to connect to the receiver using Total Commander via ftp where I have connection only by this software

  • I followed the steps in the thread you described on Nov 27th 2022 “Setting up USB/HDD” The question is did I follow your instructions correctly here is in a nutshell how I performed?I prepared small sized USB 32gb


    Properly formated USB stick with FAT32 /Quick Format via windows PC


    Next steps for performed with Initialise USB


    Menu > Setup > System > Storage Device > Initialisation

    Clicked yes - and waited... this is really sooo slow to initialise.



    Later


    Set up Swap Manager

    Menu > Setup > System > Storage Device >Swap Manager:



    Green Create....

    Yellow AutoStart

    Red Activate



    Restarted GUI. And as You mentioned important so USB is picked up in EPG settings


    Save EPG to USB (Important)

    Menu > Setup > EPG > EPG Settings


    In my case


    EPG location: /media/sdc1/epg.dat




    After Restart GUI. (important so USB is picked up in EPG settings)

    Save EPG to USB (Important)

    Menu > Setup > EPG > EPG Settings

    EPG location: /media/hdd

    Save

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    Unfortunately I am in the same place. I have no good news for myself.


    In openatv I have access to connected device drives using Total Commander and also filezilla. Unfortunately I am not able to map the same disks in openatv which are seamlessly visible right after startup in openpli


    Perhaps the mount options that are with the parameter” rw,utf8,vers=2.0 ” is appropriate, perhaps not?


    Comparison with OpenPLi: In OpenPLi, the problem does not occur, so it is worthwhile to analyze the CIFS mount configuration in that system and try to transfer these settings to OpenATV.


    For now, I'll think about how Samba settings differ between the two systems

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