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. ;-)
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> Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000x
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> John Kreno <john.kreno@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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
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>>> 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
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>>>> Ron Kaye Jr
>>>>914-7294734
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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
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>>>>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
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>>>>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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"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
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