On 13.04.2010 10:12, Ian Collins wrote: > On 04/13/10 05:47 PM, Daniel wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> Im pretty new to the whole OpenSolaris thing, i've been doing a bit of >> research but cant find anything on what i need. >> >> I am thinking of making myself a home file server running OpenSolaris >> with ZFS and utilizing Raid/Z >> >> I was wondering if there is anything i can get that will allow Windows >> Media Center based hardware (HTPC or XBOX 360) to steam from my new >> fileserver? >> >> Any help is appreciated and remember.... im new :) >> > OpenSolaris as a native CIFS service, which enables sharing filesystems > to windows clients. > > I used this blog entry to setup my windows shares: > > http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/entry/solaris_cifs_in_workgroup_mode > > With OpenSolaris, you can get the SMB server with the package manager GUI. >
I guess Daniel is rather looking for a UPnP Media Server [1] like ushare or coherence that is able to transcode media files and hand them out to streaming clients. I have been trying to get this up and running on a Solaris 10 based SPARC box, but I had no luck. I am not sure if the problem is my streaming client (Philips TV), because my FritzBox, which has a streaming server is also not always visible on the Philips TV. But the software running on the Solaris box never showed up as a service provider on the TV... Anyway, this was on Solaris 10, and I didn't bother too much to get it setup and running on OpenSolaris. There might be even a package available in the repository. Just look for the candidates like ushare, coherence, and of course libupnp. If those aren't available you'll have to build by hand, I guess this will also require some portability work. Cheers, Thomas [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_MediaServers _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
