On Friday 18 July 2003 06:42 pm, SAQIB wrote: > Everything has specific purpsose. NFS was designed for something else, and > has lots of other functionality (e.g. NAS solutions are based on NFS > stack). For mp3 a open source streaming server or a http server is the way > to go.
Wait, that's not entirely correct. I don't want to mislead you, but I have used both NFS mounted and Samba mounted file system to play MP3. All works fine. In both case, the server is Linux. The client are Lin and Win, and in linux I've used both samba and nfs with no problem. I am not sure what cause your problem, since I am not very verse at NFS myself. Others probably can help you with that, but just to let you know that it's doable. BTW, what's in your /etc/fstab for mounting the NFS? RDB > > Saqib Ali > --------- > http://www.xml-dev.com > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, G. Douglas Burton (RH 8.0) wrote: > > 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 > > > > On Friday 18 July 2003 15:01, SAQIB wrote: > > > NFS has too much overhead. I would rather look into streaming via HTTP > > > (apache). or an open source streaming solution. > > > > > > Saqib Ali > > > --------- > > > http://www.xml-dev.com > > > > > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, G. Douglas Burton (RH 8.0) wrote: > > > > I've recently tried to convert one of my fileservers (80 Gb RH8.0) to > > > > NFS. I have it setup to use Samba for access from Windows machines > > > > on my net and they all work just fine when playing MP3s and > > > > transferring large files. But now I want to use my RH 8.0 desktop > > > > machine to access the server and play MP3s etc. I tried to use Samba > > > > at first and the sound was very choppy (assume from the extra Samba > > > > overhead), so I tried to switch to NFS. Now the songs start off just > > > > fine, but then they pause for varying lengths of time (a few seconds > > > > to several minutes). Sometimes most of the song will play and then > > > > they come to a dead stop. This machine will play MP3s from my Windows > > > > server just fine using Samba. I really thought NFS would be the > > > > answer I was looking for, any suggestions? > > > > > > > > Just a message from Doug... > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > > > http://users.adelphia.net/~slugg0/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
