mark directory in storagegroup as readonly

[blubbersuelze]

Is it possible to add a Directory/mountpoint into a storagegroup and mark it as read only?
So mythtv-setup didn't do a write test on the given Directory.

[wesnewell]

I have no idea why someone would want to do this, but just set it up as a normal storage droup, and once done just change permissions on that dir to read only. man chown, man chmod, if you want to do it via terminal.

[blubbersuelze]

it's really simple.
Mount a nfs/cifs or another type of remote share to view Videos/hear music from.
And your Login has only read access.

[wesnewell]

You don't need any shares for later versions of mythtv remotes. Yeah, I had to setup nfs shares 13 years ago when I started using mythtv, but that hasn't been needed for quite a while now. Upgrade to a newer version.

[blubbersuelze]

i am using v29.1 which is actually the newest release.

What do you mean with:

You don't need any shares for later versions of mythtv remotes.

I am talking about a Remoteshare i'm connecting to from the backend.

Here a symbolic structure of the Network connection:
SMB-Share (only read Access on share) -------(Network A)------ MythTV Backend -------(Network B)------ MythTV Frontends

[bill6502]

To the original question, no. Internally, the storagegroup table has no read/write settings.

And to the statement after that: "So mythtv-setup didn't do a write test on the given Directory.":
You can ignore the error, as long as MythTV isn't expected to be able to write to that Storage
Directory.