Hello All on Forum
I am running frugal installed puppy tahr 605 on a dell vostro 1320, 2.2ghz,2gb ram. I am trying to play files from my humax foxsat hdr with yassm and vlc. I can see files on humax but I keep getting error message in vlc- permission denied.
Funny thing is xp will play all video files through network places and vlc without problem. I did have problems getting xp to work but it is ages ago and I dont remember how but may remember mapping a drive.
Has anyone any ideas.
Thanks
diode84

Since you mention that it works under XP I can only assume that your Humax is exporting using the CIFS filesystem. Hence you need to mount it on your Linux box. Running something like this as root should do the trick:
That'll prompt your for your password of the account on the Humax box. Type it in and your files should be accessible under /mnt.

Hello
When I enter that in terminal I get;
bash: your: No such file or directory
Am I meant to modify your command. I am pretty poor at terminal commands.
Any ideas.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Pnethood

Think it should work still.

There are a few different Players for Puppy.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SoftwareMultimedia

do not forget to unmap once you no longer using while browsing on internet...

To mount a cifs mount you need to have a samba client package. You also need to make sure that you set your client to login to your humax with a user that has full owner/group permissions.
Once that is done, simply follow the above mounting instructions and then give the vlc group access to where ever you decide to mount to. This is key, so dont skip it.

Surely you should replace <your username> etc with your user name...

Thats the problem I dont know the username for the box. The workgroup is just that, workgroup and I know the ip of the humax

mount -t cifs -o rw,username=<your username>,workgroup=<your windows domain> //<IP of Humax>/<share> /mnt

If you don't know your user name and password to sign on to Linux, you won't be able to do anything.
There are various commands which would provide this information - if you were signed on.

You should have been prompted for these during the installation.

BTW It seems unlikely that you need a cut-down Linux like Puppy for a 2GB RAM PC.
Of course, it may be a question of personal preference.

Its not the user name and password to sign in to puppy I need, its to sign in to the recordings on my humax foxsat freesat box.
XP will play all recordings on the box with vlc but I cant get any linux that have tried that will.
I did try linux mint but only from the live cd.

I'm not familiar enough with Puppy to help with that, but your specs are good enough for full blown installs of Debian where it may be easier to get things working and do commonplace tasks such as this (with a GUI interface). 1GB of RAM is pretty comfortable for Debian with XFCE4 desktop environment. I'd recommend installing onto an 8GB partition, but 6GB will work.

That way, you can just open the file manager and browse the network, in a way that's somewhat similar to Windows.

If you have an 8+GB spare USB thumbdrive, you can try doing a Debian install onto that (as per a normal hard drive install - the Debian installer doesn't care), to see how you like it. Bearing in mind that running off a USB drive will be sluggish compared to a normal hard drive install...it's just to try it out.

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You can't "fix" that from Linux. You need your login details else no sharing is going to work for you.

If your WinXP still logs in fine, it means it's saved the username/password to connect to that samba share. This you "can" extract, Windows doesn't encrypt this data (at least not so it's "difficult" to get back). E.g. you could use something like this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network..._recovery.html

That should show you the saved UN/PW of that particular connection. From there you should then be able to use the same as your login credentials in Linux.

Note, most Linuxes only save this sort of data into an encrypted store (not sure about Puppy) but nearly all that I've tried tend to use something similar to a "Wallet" where your master password unlocks the store so it can use those saved passwords. If you don't like this idea, then you could mount the connection as per lpwevers' suggestion - note it's possible to add even the password into that command-line (lookup the mount command's help for this). However, I'd likely suggest you rather then edit your fstab file to include this mount each time the machine boots up - much better and more secure than to add some script calling the mount command.

You might like to see how someone else did this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1571...-share-on-boot ... though that's on Ubuntu, the commands / settings shouldn't be that much different in Puppy.