Have you ever wanted to access media file on your network from your OpenVix box? If that video of your kids first Christmas is somewhere on your network and accessible via a shared folder this tutorial will detail how to add the network shares to your OpenViX installation.

All OpenViX network shares are stored in a file called "automounts.xml" which can be found here: \\IP_ADDRESS\Root\etc\enigma2\automounts.xml

Replace the IP_ADDRESS placeholder with the IP Address of your OpenVix box.

See the example below of how network share(s) will look inside the "automounts.xml" file. The example below displays 2 network shares:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
  <mountmanager>
  <fstab>
    <cifs>
      <mount>
        <active>True</active>
        <hdd_replacement>False</hdd_replacement>
        <ip>IP_ADDRESS</ip>
        <sharename>DISPLAY_NAME</sharename>
        <sharedir>NETWORK_SHARE_NAME</sharedir>
        <options>ro,utf8</options>
        <username>NETWORK_USERNAME</username>
        <password>NETWORK_PASSWORD</password>
      </mount>
    </cifs>
  </fstab>
  <fstab>
    <cifs>
      <mount>
        <active>True</active>
        <hdd_replacement>False</hdd_replacement>
        <ip>IP_ADDRESS</ip>
        <sharename>DISPLAY_NAME</sharename>
        <sharedir>NETWORK_SHARE_NAME</sharedir>
        <options>ro,utf8</options>
        <username>NETWORK_USERNAME</username>
        <password>NETWORK_PASSWORD</password>
      </mount>
    </cifs>
  </fstab>
  </mountmanager>

Replace the placeholder names IP_ADDRESS, DISPLAY_NAME, NETWORK_SHARE_NAME, NETWORK_USERNAME and NETWORK_PASSWORD with your details.

To activate your network shares navigate to Menu - Setup - System - Network - Mounts Setup - Mount Manager - Mount Point Manager and click on a network share and then click the "Green" button to save and activate the share. When prompted the share already exists just click "Yes" to update the existing share.

To view your network shares, on your remote click the "Planner" button and then click the "Yellow" button to navigate to your "Locations". Here you will see all the network shares configured in the "automounts.xml" file above.

Click one of these network shares to browse the contents of that folder.