Re: playing multimedia over my local network - how?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Bob Cox wrote:
>>>
>>> //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.
> 
>> 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.
> 

Okay.

Thanks for sharing your setup.
Regards.
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