| John Kreno on 22 Aug 2012 10:03:22 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Tried of Windows... |
So very tried On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- 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