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Soon I'll be transfering my media library to a fileserver and my question is, how do I serve this to my network best?
My options as I've narrowerf it down to are:
#1. NFS/Samba combo
Just mount the share over the network and use it as a normal share
#2. Firefly
Use the DAAP-server Firefly and serve the music that way. (Is it possible to serve videos this way and are there any linux-clients which supports this?)
There is something very appeling about Firefly (you don't need to configure anything to get it working on many computers), my only concern is how it would work when using it as Rhythmbox only library.
What do you people think? What would you have done?
Stefan Nitsche
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i don't know about firefly (the website says "software to serve digital music" in a way that makes me think it wouldn't work for video) but you can't go wrong with nfs or samba.
you don't really need both, if you have win + lin computers on your network, you can serve all of them with samba. if you just have lin, you can also just use samba, or nfs, depending on what you find easier or suits your needs better. personally, i really like nfs on linux networks, it's fast, easy to set up, and basically seamless.
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