Re: [PLUG] Tried of Windows...

[Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>]

My vote for servers is CentOS w/Samba/NFS.





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Ron Kaye Jr <rekaye1005@verizon.net> wrote:

>i have always used winSCP on my win box for access to all files,
>windows and Linux
>easiest way
>havent tried on win7
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> Ron Kaye Jr 
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>On 08/22/12, Grabowy, Chris wrote:
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>I have two XBMC Live boxes each hooked up to their own TV that I use to
>my watch and listen to my media that resides on a ?file server?. 
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>The ?file server? is an old Windows 7 dual core Atom low power PC. I
>added a couple of extra NTFS hard drives to that PC and now it holds
>all of my media. 
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>For past couple of months the XBMC?s (Linux based) are rarely able to
>connect to that Win7 box to access the media. On occasion for some
>reason it works. I have been fiddling with the network, firewall and
>file sharing options in Windows 
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>Originally when I was setting up the ?file server? I decided to keep it
>Windows 7 based since the drives were NTFS (at the time I was not sure
>that Linux could do NTFS), and I was using another SATA card (Syba SATA
>II card, not sure Linux 
>could use that card) to support more drives. Frankly, it was just
>quicker and easier to slap the drives in there and it was up and
>available. The drives are not RAIDed. Eventually when the price of
>drives fall back to where they should be then I will take 
> a look at striping or mirroring. 
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>It appears that my Windows 7 desktop can get to the file server with no
>issues. Whenever one of the XBMC boxes had a problem accessing it then
>I drop out of XBMC into Linux command line and I was able to ping the
>file server. I attempted 
> to find a Samba log somewhere but I could not find any. 
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>At this point I am just feed up with the file server. I found articles
>on the net that seem to indicate that Windows 7 file sharing doesn?t
>play very nicely with Linux. I just want to replace Windows 7 with some
>version of Linux and see 
> how well that will work. I assuming that Ubuntu is a good choice. 
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>This morning when it failed yet again my wife gave me the evil look and
>said fix it, and so now I have a project this weekend. 
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>So my questions are?.which version of Linux for a simple file server?
>Any gotchas? Any thoughts? I?ll take any advice. I want to make this
>weekend project go smoothly as possible and solve this silly problem
>once and for all. Ideally, 
>I just want to install Linux over Windows and then reconfigure the
>XBMCs. 
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>Hopefully all that babbling made sense?; 
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