Carl Johnson on 22 Aug 2012 10:02:24 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Tried of Windows...


Oh yeah and i'm tried of windows too. ;-)





Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000x

John Kreno <john.kreno@gmail.com> wrote:

>NAS4Free(BSD Based) or Openfiler(Linux Based)
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>On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Carl Johnson
><cjohnson19791979@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My vote for servers is CentOS w/Samba/NFS.
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>> Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000x
>>
>> Ron Kaye Jr <rekaye1005@verizon.net> wrote:
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>>>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:
>>>
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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
>>> 7, but nothing seems to have permanently solved the problem.
>>>
>>>
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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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>-- 
>John Kreno
>
>"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary
>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
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