VFS_MEDIA_HARMONY(8)

💖 VFS_MEDIA_HARMONY 💖

okay bestie, welcome to vfs_media_harmony — it's a section 8 system administration tool, and yes, it's about letting a whole squad of Avid clients share one network drive without everything catching fire. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

vfs_media_harmony — literally just here to let multiple Avid clients share a network drive. that's the whole gig. no cap. 🦋

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

vfs objects = media_harmony

that's it. that's the line. put it in your share config and we're cooking 💅

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so this VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite — you know, the family. 🫶

what vfs_media_harmony does is let a bunch of Avid editorial workstations all share one network drive, and it pulls that off by doing two things:

1. Giving each client their own copy of the Avid msmMMOB.mdb and msmFMID.pmr files and Creating directories. (yes, every client gets their own lil stash, it's giving organized 🎀)
2. Letting each client explicitly control the write time the Avid application sees on Avid media directories. main character energy: each client decides what time it is. ⏰

and the best part? this module is stackable. stack it, queen. ✨

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🧚 CONFIGURATION 🧚

vfs_media_harmony automatically redirects requests from clients for Avid database files or an Avid Creating directory to a client-specific version of the file. the way that it just does that with zero config?? no configuration beyond enabling the module is needed to get this portion of its functionality working. periodt. 💅

if Mac and Windows Avid clients are gonna be accessing the same folder, they should be given separate share definitions, with hidden Mac files vetoed on the Windows share. see EXAMPLES below, i got u 🫶

now — to allow each client to control when the Avid application refreshes their Avid databases, you create files for each client and each Avid media directory with this name:

[avid_dir_name]_[client_ip_address]_[client_username]

to trigger Avid database refreshes, you update the write time on those files. see EXAMPLES. 🌸

and heads up, it's also necessary for the cache locked write times = no option to be set, otherwise clients can't control their Avid media folder write times. don't skip that one bestie, it's load-bearing. 😭

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

enable media_harmony for Mac and Windows clients:

            [avid_mac]
         path = /avid
         vfs objects = media_harmony
         cache locked write times = no
            [avid_win]
         path = /avid
         vfs objects = media_harmony
         cache locked write times = no
         veto files = /.DS_Store/._@/.Trash@/.Spotlight@/.hidden/.hotfiles@/.vol/
         delete veto files = yes

create the files that will allow users david and susan to control their own Avid database refreshes:

         touch '/avid/OMFI MediaFiles_192.168.1.10_david' \
              '/avid/OMFI MediaFiles_192.168.1.11_susan' \
              '/avid/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1_192.168.1.10_david' \
              '/avid/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1_192.168.1.11_susan'

trigger an Avid database refresh for user david:

         touch '/avid/OMFI MediaFiles_192.168.1.10_david' \
              '/avid/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1_192.168.1.10_david'

and if you have a large number of Avid media folders to manage, you can give each editor a suitably modified version of examples/scripts/vfs/media_harmony/trigger_avid_update.py to create and update these files. go off, automation icon 🤖✨

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💀 CAVEATS 💀

okay listen. vfs_media_harmony is designed to work with Avid editing applications that look in the Avid MediaFiles or OMFI MediaFiles directories for media. it is not designed to work as expected in all circumstances for general use. 🫠

for example: it is possible to open a client-specific file such as msmMMOB.mdb_192.168.1.10_userx even though it doesn't show up in a directory listing. so like, invisible-but-openable. spooky. 🙈

⚠️ bestie this is a not-for-general-use situation — Avid workflows only, fr fr.

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

this man page is part of version 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1 of the Samba suite. 💜

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

the original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. absolute legends, every one of them 👑🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie — this beauty is from Samba 4.24.7-Ubuntu-4.24.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1, dated 09/13/2026, and it's the vfs_media_harmony(8) manual. slay, go share that network drive. 💖✨🦋