Grabowy, Chris on 22 Aug 2012 11:55:18 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] EXTERNAL: Re: Tried of Windows...


My Windows 7 desktop NEVER has a problem getting to that file server.  But the XBMC Lives (Linux based) are constantly having problems.

I was tempted to switch them to Window's XBMC boxes but I would rather learn some Linux by switching the file server to Linux.

I did upgrade one of the XBMC boxes to the latest version (Eden) and it is still having problems.

I also had to reboot the "file server" every couple of weeks because of the Windows Updates.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:21 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [PLUG] Tried of Windows...

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Grabowy, Chris <chris.grabowy@lmco.com> 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".

I use XBMC on Win 7 Home (came pre-installed on a Dell Inspiron I bought for this purpose), running XBMC 11 (Eden) which connects to a Windows Home Server 2011 running on an Atom PC (ditto)  as a file share, which has 4 drives. Mine Just Works.

Maybe it's the XBMC Live that is causing the issue? Can you see if the same thing happens if you actually install XBMC on a one of those boxes? Or have you tried a different Live distribution, and see whether you can connect with Samba from it, and whether it drops? That should tell you if it's your file server, or the XBMC Live, that causes the disconnects.

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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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