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#1 2009-09-01 07:38:11

celestialorb
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From: Seattle, Washington
Registered: 2009-07-30
Posts: 30

What can I use to get shared media across OSes on my local network?

Hey guys,

My family is getting a new home entertainment center and I've thrown together a PC from spare parts around the house to put behind it and I'd like to know if there's a program out there that would allow me to gather shared media across the local network (everyone else in my family uses Windows...mainly Vista   :-/ ).  If not, is there any other way I can access the shared media (short of putting Windows on the PC of course)?  I tried searching, but I couldn't seem to come up with anything.

Thanks in advance!

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#2 2009-09-01 07:52:21

brazzmonkey
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Registered: 2006-03-16
Posts: 818

Re: What can I use to get shared media across OSes on my local network?


what goes up must come down

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#3 2009-09-01 18:42:57

celestialorb
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From: Seattle, Washington
Registered: 2009-07-30
Posts: 30

Re: What can I use to get shared media across OSes on my local network?

Thanks for pointing me to Samba.  It looks great for hosting media, but what about it's ability to read shared media from other local computers, computers that have Windows on them?  Would it be able to do that?

I not only want it to be able to host media files, but also be able to read any shared files on a Windows machine.

Also, as a side note I'm new to networking on Linux so I'm sorry if I simply missed the answer to this on the wiki.

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#4 2009-09-01 19:01:24

ataraxia
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From: Pittsburgh
Registered: 2007-05-06
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Re: What can I use to get shared media across OSes on my local network?

Samba basically is Windows sharing. Same protocol.

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#5 2009-09-02 03:11:04

celestialorb
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From: Seattle, Washington
Registered: 2009-07-30
Posts: 30

Re: What can I use to get shared media across OSes on my local network?

Alright, so I've been working with Samba today, and I believe I have it working properly.  However, I can't seem to access any shared files/folders on machines that have Vista on them.

When I run smbtree, I get this output:

\\HOMEMEDIA
    ...
\\WINXPCOMP
    ...
\\VISTACOMP1
timeout connecting to 192.168.1.107:445
timeout connecting to 192.168.1.107:139
cli_start_connection: failed to connect to VISTACOMP1<20> (0.0.0.0).  Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
\\VISTACOMP2
timeout connecting to 192.168.1.105:445
timeout connecting to 192.168.1.105:139
cli_start_connection: failed to connect to VISTACOMP2<20> (0.0.0.0).  Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
\\WIN7PC
    ...

I'm not really sure what to do here.  I've tried changing around settings in the smb.conf file, but I'm not really sure what exactly it is that I'm doing for every option.  Also, smbtree sometimes won't output a tree at all and it will just hang.  I'm quite confused, any suggestions on what I should try?

Also, one of my Windows 7 PCs won't show up on smbtree.  I can ping it though...maybe it's not on the right workgroup?
EDIT:  I was able to fix the problem with my second Windows 7 computer, apparently I had to change from 128-bit encryption to 40/56 bit encryption, then smbtree was able to pick up on it.

Last edited by celestialorb (2009-09-02 04:54:27)

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