sorry to revive, how do i go about mounting windows shares to stream over network?
and can ubuntu see or access windows administrative shares?

attempting to get my head around the linux part with vmware before buying the hardware.

sorry to revive, how do i go about mounting windows shares to stream over network?

pretty sure you can just explore the network like you do normally in Windows, but failing that you can always drop to a command prompt and mount it explicitly using the command line tools. it's pretty easy.

and can ubuntu see or access windows administrative shares?

I am not 100% sure but I thiiinkkkkk so

ta, any other hints?

linux makes my brain hurt...

edit: omg it worked!@^%&!^@%&

last edited by DecayingCorpse at 22:11:26 09/Feb/10

xbmc supports various network share protocols without even needing to touch linux, right in it's own interface
my entire library runs right off a samba share from my thecus

linux makes my brain hurt...

freenas.org - Zed it up dude

my entire library runs right off a samba share from my thecus

well there you go.. get an old why the f*** did I originally say 486? pc and load her up.

the OS installs in less than 30 seconds, and makes the Thecus look like a machine for slack c***s

good luck restoring that Thecus array when that POS fails guys.. I'm glad I'm not paid to do it anymore. f*** me - why do people buy this s***?


last edited by koopz at 00:46:07 10/Feb/10

why would I want an old pc? it's big, noisy, power hungry, has comparably poorer i/o and consumes my time building/maintaining it

and why will I need luck restoring the array? it's a simple linux software raid with lvm over the top

I'm kind of glad you're not paid to do it anymore too

hahaha jim.