Hi, Just wanted to comment on your post about using a $1000 NAS box as a dedicated Slimserver. In my experience, you don't need to spend anywhere near that amount. I'm a brand new SB3 owner and I just built a brand new Slimserver linux box for well under $300.
I bought from Newegg a shoebox system that included a case preinstalled with motherboard and included a free Athlon Sempron 2600 for $230. All I had to add was a hard disk, memory, and CD/DVD player/recorder. I happened to have bought a Maxtor 200 gb drive during the Christmas rush for $29. I also had 512mb of memory lying around. Also, I had a spare DVD drive. This went together very easily and quickly. I poked around here and discovered that the free ClarkConnect Home linux server software was a good bet for running Slimserver. A big bonus was that Clarkconnect was setup to run headless from the start so I don't have to have a keyboard/mouse/monitor hooked up once I got things setup. It really came together very simply and easily. Slimserver is running great. Once I set things up, I moved the server near my router in my utility room and powered it up. Everything works great. I installed some unix utilities of scp and putty to allow me direct access to the server from my WinXP box. ClarkConnect sets up default SMB shares that are easily accessed from Windows. I copied over all my WMA and FLAC files and pointed WMP 10 to a mapped SMB share on the ClarkConnect box and I rip new CDs directly to the server. This really was pretty straight forward. -CB -- ctbarker32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ctbarker32's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19155 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
