Media Center - SMB Device

PicoPix PicoPix Max (PPX620)
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Hi Phillips,

Haven’t tried all Media Type but tried to add new Samba Device of my NAS.
The Samba connection from my laptop and my galaxy tab and other systems to my NAS system are all good, but PPMX keeps returning “Mount failed” error.
My test was done with;
//192.168.100.51/nas and the required credentials.
It didn’t work regardless anonymous checked or not.
Did I have anything wrong on my test? Or PPMX bug?

Appreciated if you answer to my question so as to fix my problem.

Thanks,
Joseph

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Which app on the PPX are you trying this with?

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Hi IvoG,

The “Media Center” is one of the pre-installed apps and shipped. I didn’t install any new app.
The Media Center app has menu to add SMB or NFS drives, then I tried to add SMB (Samba) drive since I have Nas at home running on RaspberryPi 4 OS.

Thanks,
Joseph.

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I managed to mount SMB drives in Kodi without problems, maybe you can try that.

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Forget media center, give it a try to NOVA PLAYER, superb even better than kodi

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I didn’t realize what you were talking about as I also never used that app, only Kodi and Nova Player. Plus you only put the name in the title, so it didn’t occur to me that it was an app.

I tried this myself and discovered that it’s a permissions issue:
MountUtils: mountSamba->smbInfo:SmbInfo [uniqueID=abbd748f-e88d-4369-8ecb-a068fe8d3a73, netWorkPath=//10.0.0.302/video, localMountPath=/data/mediacenter_networkdevice/0485ea2e, userName=SomeUser, password=password1, isUnknowName=false]

chatty : uid=1000(system) com.rockchips.mediacenter identical 46 lines

ViewRootImpl[MainActivity]: updatePointerIcon called with position out of bounds

com.rockchips.mediacenter: type=1400 audit(0.0:223): avc: denied { write } for comm=4173796E635461736B20233138 name=“mediacenter_networkdevice” dev=“mmcblk2p22” ino=125289 scontext=u:r:system_app:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:system_data_file:s0 tclass=dir permissive=1

com.rockchips.mediacenter: type=1400 audit(0.0:224): avc: denied { add_name } for comm=4173796E635461736B20233138 name=“0485ea2e” scontext=u:r:system_app:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:system_data_file:s0 tclass=dir permissive=1

com.rockchips.mediacenter: type=1400 audit(0.0:225): avc: denied { create } for comm=4173796E635461736B20233138 name=“0485ea2e” scontext=u:r:system_app:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:system_data_file:s0 tclass=dir permissive=1

com.rockchips.mediacenter: type=1400 audit(0.0:226): avc: denied { write } for comm=4173796E635461736B20233138 name=“cifsmanager.sh” dev=“mmcblk2p22” ino=125292 scontext=u:r:system_app:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:system_data_file:s0 tclass=file permissive=1

com.rockchips.mediacenter: type=1400 audit(0.0:227): avc: denied { open } for comm=4173796E635461736B20233138 path="/data/cifsmanager/cifsmanager.sh" dev=“mmcblk2p22” ino=125292 scontext=u:r:system_app:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:system_data_file:s0 tclass=file permissive=1

@Philips_Support_P is this something that we can change in the settings ourselves?

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Hi Philips/IvoG,

Thanks for the clarification and sharing the details. Thanks for all other gentlemen providing me with the meaningful comments.

It seems some changes may be required on the settings or Media Center app itself.

Indeed, the only reason I tried to play with it was because the app got chosen by your team and then pre-installed as a suggested app to use by default in dashboard. So, I thought it should be stable one than the others… that is kind of natural thought of myself as an IT person building solutions provider… :slight_smile:

I know how to use KODI and Nova player. Probably I can try that instead of Media Center app for now at least until Phillips says the app isn’t recommended to use… :slight_smile:

Thanks & Regards,

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