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]

WINS does *not* do DHCP, either on a Windows server or on a Samba server. The two are entirely separate services and functions. WINS also does not broadcast. Again, avoiding broadcast is a large part of the entire raison d'etre of WINS.

[jjsaysblah.livejournal.com]

i mis-spoke....

with DNS you need DHCP, with Wins you do not have to.... because of it's fucntionality it can for resolution and addresses what DHCP does. but it does add to network traffic compared to a DNS/DHCP only solution

as i said, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree.

but i bet if you ask most standards and practices experts about it, they'd have you steer away from WINS

my two cents,

peace.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

You really need to look up what these services do. Again, WINS and DHCP are *entirely* separate services and perform *entirely* separate functions. The only connection at all between the two is that DHCP can push information about WINS server presence in the same way it pushes information about DNS server presence.

DHCP does no resolution, WINS does no allocation. Further, WINS neither broadcasts nor *requires* broadcasts from clients (DHCP servers do no broadcasting themselves, but DHCP clients locate available DHCP servers with a network broadcast to the local segment).

[jjsaysblah.livejournal.com]

dude- i'm sure you're a nice guy, but we are not communicating effectively.

you can have this one - if ever we meet irl we can hash it out then if it still seems a good idea.

/this

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Fair 'nuff.