RE: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread Mark Beaver
I personally do this with 2 IDE 80Gig drives in a CCD Configuiration with Samba on (better free windows support) a Pentium 2 350 with 512 Megs of RAM with no issues, this serves my: Music, Pictures, movies, and such without issue, and I stream them off of the share just fine, even with movies/music

Samba server (freebsd 5.2.1) and clients not able to communicate.

2005-01-11 Thread Mark Beaver
I have several windows based clients that work perfectly fine. However, linux based machines (FC3 and Slackware 10) all give Error in cp Input/Output error. I can mount them fine, browse folders, but copying to and from it gets that error, googling doesn't get me anything, and I've disabled iptabl

RE: Trackball, extra buttons, and X - I've lost something

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Beaver
In my experience with these leave the 4 5 as your ZAxisMapping and try it should keep your wheel working. I'm not sure how to get the other two to work though, I've always had issues with that. Mark Beaver -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Trackball, extra buttons, and X - I've lost something

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Beaver
at 6 and 7, but I still can't seem to get them working right through Fvwm. At least I have scrolling without annoying popup menus. I'll try switching the ZAxisMapping and the xmodmap to see if I can get a change. Thanks Lou On 01/13/05 07:29 PM, Mark Beaver sat at the `puter and typed: &g

FreeBSD PVR Solution -- any?

2004-10-16 Thread Mark Beaver
I'd like to build a FreeBSD based PVR station with at least Svideo output and ideally digital coax sound (maybe not dolby digital) Currently I have: P3 350 448 Megs of ram 160Gigs of storage I'd like to know if anyone has had any luck with this type of system if so, what kind of hardware. If