issue with raspistill (&vid) saving to mounted network drive

[leofric]

Hi - been around computers for years but very new to raspberry pi and linux.

Help please - going in circles.

I have mounted the public folder on a wired network Windows PC as PiPics The folder has read/write access.

On the Pi I can browse the contents of the PC folder by cd /mmt/PiPics and see the contents ok.

Nano can write a text file to the windows folder with no problem.

I can't get raspistill to save to it.
Using raspistill -o //mnt/PiPics/test.jpg
or raspistill -o /mnt/PiPics/test.jpg from the root
or if I change to the mmt/PiPics directory and use the same or
raspistill -o test.jpg I get the same error
The error generated is;

mmal: main: error opening output file: test.jpg

Very odd as Nano saves to the drive and raspistill works great on the Pi.
I must be missing something very obvious.

[Honsolgen]

two lines in a shell script
capture the image with raspistill locally
then copy the image to your mounted device

[leofric]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I could do as you suggest but I don't understand why raspistill can't save directly to the drive as other apps can.

[Honsolgen]

maybe it´s because accessing the user-space filesystem SMB is not implemented within raspistill.

At least I can tell:
I have an sshfs filesystem mounted on my pi. And I just tried it with raspistill.
Works flawless

[leofric]

problem solved .... !

I thought I was at the root but wasn't.

sudo raspistill -o /mnt/PiPics/Testpic.jpg

works fine and saves the image directly to the mapped drive on the networked PC.