Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful responses. Especially to Tony, I
found the Addonics NAS model for sale on amazon UK for a reasonable price
which specifies Samba compatibility in the product description. If I am
unable to get good speeds using the netbook and NFS then I will most likely
give
A NAS is a Network Attached Storage, i.e. it is attached to your
Network, not to your PC. If your PC is attached to the same network,
then you can access it via samba from your Ubuntu PC.
I also had a NAS, which I originally set up under Windows XP, I thnk it
had to be configured via a web inte
Hi,
Is the USB drive connected to a USB1 or USB2 port on your PC? I wonder if
the bottleneck is there instead of across your network?
On 5 March 2010 15:53, Tommy Pyatt wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been trying to use my old Eee PC 701 as a server on my home network
> for data on a 1TB exte
How about
http://www.addonics.com/products/nas/nasu2.asp
which I found with a quick Google - that says Linux 2.6.x and above is
OK.
Tony
On 5 Mar 2010 at 15:53, Tommy Pyatt wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been trying to use my old Eee PC 701 as a server on my home network for
> data on a 1
Hello everyone,
I've been trying to use my old Eee PC 701 as a server on my home network for
data on a 1TB external USB hard drive, however for some reason files are
being transferred painfully slow to my desktop via samba. I am considering
giving NFS a go to see if I can achieve faster transfers,
