ftp causing invalid syntax

You most likely don't want the first /mnt

so

assuming the actual folder /CCTV/PiZero exists on the NAS and the empty mount-point /mnt/CCTV/PiZero exists on the rPi.

try

sudo mount -t cifs -o //192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero /mnt/CCTV/PiZero

Forget running the script until you can create non-zero length files on one machine, and see the contents of them on the other machine, preferably both ways round.

That returns this:

sudo mount -t cifs -o //192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero /mnt/CCTV/PiZero mount: can't find /mnt/CCTV/PiZero in /etc/fstab pi@raspberrypi:~ $

I think/reckon that something should be added to the /etc/fstab file along the lines of /mnt/CCTV/PiZero or the full line from //192.168.0.22 etc

What's that -o doing in there ? Unless I'm much mistaken it's turning the //192.168.0.22/mnt/CCTV/PiZero into an option which would probably cause an error (unsupported option or somesuch) except that since mount can't see a special it goes looking in fstab for the mountpoint and fails to find it and so bombs out with that error instead.

Still the same error without the-o

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero /mnt/CCTV/PiZero Password for root@//192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero: ******

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ python intruder.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "intruder.py", line 40, in shutil.copyfile(RAMname, NASname) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero/2018-06-04_17.47.17.h264'

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

you might eventually want an entry in the /etc/fstab to it can be mounted automatically, or with a "mount -a" command, but get the mount to work manually first.

Does /CCTV/PiZero exist on the NAS, is it exported by samba or some other CIFS server?

Does /mnt/CCTV/PiZero exist on the rPI

All case sensitive.

Forget the script until the mount works!

Ok will do for now then.

I have just been reading up on shutil here:

That bit in the script should read /mnt/CCTV/PiZero.

-- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |

This worked fine just now:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo mount //192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero /mnt/CCTV/PiZero Password for root@//192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero: ******

I have added this in the fstab file:

/CCTV/PiZero exists on my NAS box, and /mnt/CCTV/PiZero exist on the PiZero.

So as the mount works now, and is in the fstab file, it now points to the python script:

NASname = os.path.join("//192.168.0.22/mnt/CCTV/PiZero" , fname)

The mount works fine now:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo mount //192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero /mnt/CCTV/PiZero Password for root@//192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero: ****** pi@raspberrypi:~ $

hurrah :-)

^^^^ where did that creep back from?

once it's mounted you just use the local path you mounted it at

os.path.join("/mnt/CCTV/PiZero", fname)

Does os.path.join("/mnt/CCTV/PiZero", fname) have to be added underneath NASname= os.path.join etc.

Oh I removed the first /mnt in the fstab file, and now I have big problem. The shell is locked again.

With python's finicky indenting, no, keep it on one line similar to your original, but without the //192.168.0.22 bit

NASname = os.path.join("/mnt/CCTV/PiZero", fname)

ctrl-C ?

The fstab file didn't seem to have the correct information into and consequently the PiZero failed to boot up. I then had to re flash the sd card.

Now I have successfully mounted the /mnt/CCTV/Pizero as it shows up here:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on Other information edited out /dev/sda1 7.5G 16K 7.5G 1% /media/pi/B00F-4173 //192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero/ 899G 3.5G 896G 1% /mnt/CCTV/PiZero pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Now the sensor has stopped working for some unknown reason, maybe a capacitor has been bent over to much whilst I was fiddling with the PiZero connections.

As previously, I have again successfully mounted the /mnt/CCTV/PiZero directory, and the sensor and the new camera are working just fine.

pi@raspberrypi:~/Downloads $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 15G 4.1G 9.9G 30% / /dev/mmcblk0p1 42M 21M 21M 51% /boot tmpfs 38M 4.0K 38M 1% /run/user/1000 //192.168.0.22/CCTV/PiZero/ 899G 2.7G 897G 1% /mnt/CCTV/PiZero pi@raspberrypi:~/Downloads $

When I run pi@raspberrypi:~/Downloads $ python intruder.py, it returns this:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "intruder.py", line 37, in shutil.copyfile(RAMname, NASname) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//192.168.0.22/mnt/CCTV/PiZero/2018-06-13_19.52.59.h264'

Relevant portion of code where it falls over, as above

#create base filename at time of motion trigger fname = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S.h264", time.localtime(triggerTime))

RAMname = os.path.join("/run/shm", fname) NASname = os.path.join("//192.168.0.22/mnt/CCTV/PiZero" , fname)

camera.start_preview()

#capture video to RAM device first camera.start_recording(RAMname) camera.wait_recording(10) camera.stop_recording() camera.stop_preview()

#copy from RAM device to NAS device shutil.copyfile(RAMname, NASname)

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:03:38 +0100, RobH declaimed the following:

And as you've been repeatedly told, the path in NASname is supposed to be the location in the RPi where you put the mount point. It is NOT supposed to be a reference to the remote device itself.

Presuming the mount point ON THE RPi is /mnt/CCTV/PiZero then THAT is what you want in that .join() operation. Take out the //192.168.0.22

^^^^^^^^^^ physical location path to access it ^^^^^^^^^^^

^^^^^^^^^^ physical location path to access it ^^^^^^^^^^^

Thanks and it took a while to get to sink in: Doh!

Now it's permissions problems, and I have googled how to change permissions on file and folders, but no joy as yet.

I have tried:

pi@raspberrypi:/mnt $ sudo chown -R 777 /mnt/CCTV pi@raspberrypi:/mnt $ sudo chown -R 777 /mnt pi@raspberrypi:/mnt $ sudo chown -R 777 /mnt/CCTV pi@raspberrypi:/mnt $ sudo chown -R 777 /mnt/CCTV/PiZero/ pi@raspberrypi:/mnt $ pi@raspberrypi:/mnt $ ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 777 root 4096 Jun 5 09:50 CCTV

Then ran the python script and got the permissions problem again

pi@raspberrypi:~/Downloads $ python intruder.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "intruder.py", line 37, in shutil.copyfile(RAMname, NASname) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/mnt/CCTV/PiZero/2018-06-14_10.12.34.h264'

In PiZero's file manager the folders /CCTV and /PiZero have their read and write permission set for anyone, but the /mnt directory is not.

I tried:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cdmod -R a+rX /mnt

-bash: cdmod: command not found pi@raspberrypi:~ $ chmod -R a+rX /CCTV/Pizero chmod: cannot access '/CCTV/Pizero': No such file or directory pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Thanks

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:04:01 +0100, RobH declaimed the following:

Unless you have a user named "777" those parameters are wrong.

chown [options] new_owner object(s) """

^^^ ^^^^

^^^ user name ^^^^ group name

Try

chown -R pi /mnt/CCTV

Or (untried) create a new group (call it NASuser), chown the mount point to that group, and then add pi user to the new group.

That 777 looks like you are trying to set permission levels (the rwx stuff you see on the left). That command is chmod

you should have done chmod - not chown with those params