Okay, the next question is why? It is difficult for me to believe that my Windows machines have no problem accessing and playing MP3s from the Linux server via Samba and yet my Linux machine can't do it either via Samba or NFS? So what was all the talk I heard about Linux being such a wonderful networking OS? BTW, the Linux desktop machine has 256 Mb of RAM while most of my WIndows machines are running 128 Mb or less. Assuming equal network speed for all on the same net, why is this not enough RAM? I'll grant you running Gnome and XMMS is part of the problem, but it does not seem to bother anything when I access the MP3s which reside on my old Win 95 server. I'll admit to being a relative Linux newbie, but I'm just trying to understand...
Doug On Friday 18 July 2003 15:01, SAQIB wrote: > NFS has too much overhead. I would rather look into streaming via HTTP > (apache). or an open source streaming solution. > > Saqib Ali > --------- > http://www.xml-dev.com > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, G. Douglas Burton (RH 8.0) wrote: > > I've recently tried to convert one of my fileservers (80 Gb RH8.0) to > > NFS. I have it setup to use Samba for access from Windows machines on my > > net and they all work just fine when playing MP3s and transferring large > > files. But now I want to use my RH 8.0 desktop machine to access the > > server and play MP3s etc. I tried to use Samba at first and the sound > > was very choppy (assume from the extra Samba overhead), so I tried to > > switch to NFS. Now the songs start off just fine, but then they pause > > for varying lengths of time (a few seconds to several minutes). > > Sometimes most of the song will play and then they come to a dead stop. > > This machine will play MP3s from my Windows server just fine using Samba. > > I really thought NFS would be the answer I was looking for, any > > suggestions? > > > > Just a message from Doug... > > --------------------------------------------- > > http://users.adelphia.net/~slugg0/ > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
