linux things

[lauralh]

The other thing I've been occupying myself with is trying to get as much out of my Ubuntu box as I can, as Reg would like to convert his old box to a music/media server. So I switched from Rhythmbox to Banshee, and so far I prefer it a lot, but I had to go and rerate songs and that kind of shit. Mostly just drag'n'drop, and definitely less of a pain in the ass than it was to get it started in RB, but still takes up some time. Now I'm trying to get my sandisk MP3 player to work, and I'm having some issues. Some songs it copies, some it doesn't, and when I "ejected" then reconnected to attempt to fix the issue, it just didn't show up again. Blargh. Oh well, I'll reboot and try again later.

The real issue is Samba. I suppose I need to set up Reg's computer as a Samba server, since that miracle of technology that Windows uses - being able to read AND write over the network - is only one-way here. Reg watches all his movies from that machine over the wireless to his laptop, and if he can't do that, then there's no point in living. And I'll also have to export his torrent settings and ratios and whatnot. Anyway, if anyone has dealt with this kind of stuff, let me know.

(Also, if anyone knows why XP would freeze every hour or so during, say, DVD burning or something like, when it never used to do that...)

Comments

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Needs UPnP. WMP can do it, or you can install Tombstone. If it's genuinely "through" a router - ie in the LAN and out the WAN - there are some fairly serious security issues and it gets a lot more complicated. (If it's only "through" the router in the sense of both devices being wireless, it isn't really "through", and no worries.)