> 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

I'm using samba to play mp3 files on my notebook (256MB of RAM and
11Mbps wireless connection) that reside on an WinXP computer (756MB RAM)
just fine

Tom


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