From: <fre...@km...> - 2003-09-02 03:11:00
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Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Freevo Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by Brian Enigma: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/FrequentlyAskedQuestions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -403,11 +403,13 @@ I got a new machine and installed Linux and Freevo, but my MP3s and videos are shared on my Windows box and I want to keep them there. How do I get Freevo to connect to the share? -You need to install and configure Samba (sometimes known as SMB). Most Linux distributions support this and come ready out of the box. Check that you have Samba installed and that your kernel has support for the smbfs module. If not, you may need to install Samba and/or recompile the kernel. Next, create a mount point. As root, type in {{{mkdir /mnt/computername}}} where "computername" is the name of the Windows machine. Finally, tell your Linux box that the share is available and should be grafted into your filesystem at /mnt/computername by editing (also as root) the file /etc/fstab and appending the following line: +You need to install and configure Samba (sometimes known as SMB). Most Linux distributions support this and come ready out of the box. Check that you have Samba installed and that your kernel has support for the smbfs module. If not, you may need to install Samba and/or recompile the kernel. Next, create a mount point. As root, type in {{{mkdir /mnt/computername}}} where "computername" is the name of the Windows machine. Next, tell your Linux box that the share is available and should be grafted into your filesystem at /mnt/computername by editing (also as root) the file /etc/fstab and appending the following line: {{{ //computername/sharename /mnt/computername smbfs username=toto,password=tutu,owner,user,_netdev 0 0 }}} If the share does not require a username and password, change the "username=blah,password=blah" to "guest". The share should now be automatically mounted next time the machine is booted, or can be manually mounted with {{{mount /mnt/computername}}} + +Finally, add the mountpoint to freevo_conf.py to make Freevo aware of it. Be advised that audio will stream over a Samba share pretty well, but video files might be a little choppy, depending on the speed of your network and how your other machines are using it. It is highly advised to upgrade to a fast (100 megabit) ethernet and turn off bandwidth-hogging applications (P2P file sharing) if you will be watching large, high-quality, movies over a file share. |