| 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) > > >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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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