| John Kreno on 22 Aug 2012 09:59:53 -0700 |
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NAS4Free(BSD Based) or Openfiler(Linux Based) On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com> wrote: > My vote for servers is CentOS w/Samba/NFS. > > > > > > Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000x > > 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 >> >> >> Ron Kaye Jr >>914-7294734 >> >>On 08/22/12, Grabowy, Chris wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>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?. >> >> >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >>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 >> 7, but nothing seems to have permanently solved the problem. >> >> >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >>Hopefully all that babbling made sense?; >> >> >> >> >> >>___________________________________________________________________________ >>Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >>Announcements - >>http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>General Discussion -- >>http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>___________________________________________________________________________ >>Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >>http://www.phillylinux.org >>Announcements - >>http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>General Discussion -- >>http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- John Kreno "Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug