Everything has specific purpsose. NFS was designed for something else, and has lots of other functionality (e.g. NAS solutions are based on NFS stack). For mp3 a open source streaming server or a http server is the way to go.
Saqib Ali --------- http://www.xml-dev.com On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, G. Douglas Burton (RH 8.0) wrote: > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
