On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 23:04 +0100, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for a setup to play movies and music and to browse photos > over my local home network (mostly Debian, one Ubuntu machine, sometimes > a Windows machine on the wireless network). How do I start doing that? > My objective is to have all multimedia on one disk connected to a > machine (USB, firewire or SATA, not fixed yet). > > >From a little search, I have seen somebody mention NFS for which I > apparently need 2.6.27 kernel (not in Testing yet, so that option is > out). The other option seems to be to stream video -- is this really > necessary in this situation? And it won't help much with photo browsing > anyway. > > Mostly I connect between different machine via SSH. So I can open an X > display. That gives the video but no sound on my local machine. > > I have also samba setup on one machine which at present mounts a disk > which has songs and photos on it. However, I haven't yet found a way to > play the songs over samba. Also, by favorite photo browser is gqview but > it also doesn't appear to understand samba. > > Thanks in advance for inputs on this. > Regards.
Why not mount what you want over ssh, it is called 'sshfs'. It's secure and fast (I believe it is faster and more stable than samba). Best, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
