Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?
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?
> 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.
Regards.
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