Solution to Windows/SMB share contents not being visible

[everthewatcher]

Looks like I may have found the solution to Windows/SMB shares being visible from the HDR but not their content - forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere.

The clue was scanmounts.log having this:
mount: mounting //192.168.1.11/SharedMedia on /media/CASTLE failed: Cannot allocate memory

It seems Windows has to be told it's acting a server and needs a couple of registry changes.

Here's a few links to the solution:

Fix for mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory

Do you have the following situation: You’ve got a share on Windows (XP, Vista, 7) that you’re trying to access from a Linux system, in this case Ubuntu. Mounted through /etc/fstab or di…

thelinuxexperiment.com

Windows 7 Nonpaged Pool Srv Error 2017

A site dedicated to various tips & tricks that we've come by in one way or another.

tips.paddyonline.net

Windows 7 File Sharing Registry Settings (fixes srv 2017 server Error)

The following is a copy of an article from Alan Lamielle. It solves file sharing issues for Scrap Dragon on Windows 7 Pro. We should make sure that all Windows 7 Pro SD servers have the settings described in this article: mount error(12): Cannot allocate memory Refer to the mount.

tranact.com

It had got to the point of being a daily occurence here, which I now realise was probably down to the increasing number of files in the share, to the extent that I'd started using DLNA. Since I've made the changes on a Win7 machine last week the problem has gone away.

 

[everthewatcher]

Always worries me when there are no comments.

 

[Black Hole]

My comments are purely cosmetic: how about putting that you are talking about a Windows share in the title?

 

[everthewatcher]

...how about putting that you are talking about a Windows share in the title?

Fair point. Now done.

 

[everthewatcher]

It's now over a week later and it's been behaving perfectly.

 

[everthewatcher]

Has anyone else with this problem applied this fix and had it go away?

 

[everthewatcher]

Just me then. I thought this was a common problem.

 

[Black Hole]

It may well be a common problem, but for an uncommon scenario. How many people use a Windows machine to serve their viewing? Not me, that's for sure.

 

[everthewatcher]

There's a shared drive on the Win7 machine that's used for non off-air stuff - Youtube and iPlayer downloads etc. - plus some recordings pulled from a long-gone 9200T.

Anything recorded on the HDR gets played on it, although I have started offloading HD films to the shared drive.

 

[prpr]

Just for the record, in case the linked sites go away:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters]
"Size"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001

 

[MymsMan]

For completeness to solve the problem I was having with mapped HDR drives not reconnecting on Windows machines

Running the command
REG ADD "HKCU\Network\U" /v "ProviderFlags" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

has solved the issue (change \U to your drive letter)