We're on a university campus, and each building has it's own local network connecting directly to the main server room.
In our building, we're currently working on a large multimedia project. Some people are working in Photoshop, others in Final Cut Pro / Adobe After Effects.
I'm going to be redoing my home network soon and am thinking of using a dedicated ubuntu machine to use as the router/firewall as well as being a web server, nas (media file server), dns, wifi, and just a general complete server box. The machine i have now has a dual core 2.5ghz processor with 3 gigs of ram and two gigabit NICs. What kind of throughput should i expect?
I've recently turned my Fedora 17 box into a Samba server. My intention was to use the machine as a central media server that I could access from other machines around my house.
Hi guys,
I've got a network set up in the office that runs a samba server to share all files across the network.
As it's a media company, we're in need of being able to upload video from a remote location to the samba share server - preferably by adding the ability to copy it directly on the drive from a \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx shortcut from windows.
Hi,
I had to shut my Ubuntu Server down to install some more RAM and since I have, I can't connect to Samba shares via my Mac or via my WD TV Live Media Players.
If I try via the Media players it says The network share cannot be accessed and via my mac it says: There was a problem connecting to the server.
The plot thickens (and why I think it is DNS) as if I connect to smb://192.168.1.82
Hi,
I am a beginner when it comes to Linux, and have recently put together a media server, holding all my movies, running ubuntu 12.04.
After following tutorials and forums i can successfully ping, by hostname and ip, my windows desktop box and my media server ubuntu box fine, and vice versa.
I have configured samba to set up a share called Movies on my media server.
I am a beginner when it comes to Linux, and have recently put together a media server, holding all my movies, running ubuntu 12.04.
After following tutorials and forums i can successfully ping, by hostname and ip, my windows desktop box and my media server ubuntu box fine, and vice versa.
I have configured samba to set up a share called Movies on my media server.
I've setup Samba on a Gentoo server, and everything is functioning correctly, when I try to access files on the server I get a consistent 80-100MB/s over gigabit ethernet end to end. However, when trying to write files, the performance drops severely, to <10MB's for the same set of large files. Samba is serving files off of a JFS partition on a MD RAID 5 array with 6 disks.
I'm a long-time Fedora user, and I currently have a Raspberry Pi on order, so I was doing some benchmarking of my home network in anticipation of streaming audio and video media to the RPi.
My main question was this: is it faster to use NFS or Samba for read-only media streaming?
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