Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:49:37 -0500, H.S. (hs.samix@gmail.com) wrote:
> Bob Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 00:24:40 -0500, H.S. (hs.samix@gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >> H.S. wrote:
> >>
> >>> Now what remains to be done is to get the right configuration for samba.
> >>> At present, I am using sudo with username and password to mount the
> >>> samba folder:
> >>> $> sudo mount -t cifs -o username=hs //gurh/Music /mnt/videos
> >> Better alternative:
> >> $> smbmount //M/Videos ~/Videos -o username=hs
> >>
> >> followed by the password. Then I get the mounted directory in ~/Videos.
> >> To unmount, I use "smbumount ~/Videos".
> >
> > Glad you managed to get it working.
> >
> > I do not manually mount/umount but instead have the following in my
> > /etc/fstab
> >
> > [ Remote machine called gaia, folder to share 'fileserver', mounted on
> > /mnt/fileserver ]
> >
> > //gaia/fileserver /mnt/fileserver cifs //guest,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
>
> So you have set up samba to not require a password when a user connects
> to the server?
Yes - the only users my family and me on a wired LAN.
> > Of course, this presupposes that the remote PC is 'always there'.
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> > I use static IPs with all machines on the LAN in the hosts file,
> > otherwise I believe I would need to use something like
> > "//192.168.200.7/fileserver" instead.
>
> I use dnsmasq on my router machine to solve this problem. Works very well.
I have avoided DHCP altogether and rely on hosts files as there is only
a few machines within the LAN. My ISP provides me with a static IP,
which makes running mail and web severs easier and the ISP's DNS servers
IP addresses don't change either, so I don't think dnsmasq would be of
much benefit here.
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