On Jan 26, 2006, at 4:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 3:40 PM -0500 01/26/2006, GDB-B&W-X.3.9 wrote:
As for the HD, if that were the problem it seems it would affect how
they play on the Mac as well, wouldn't it? My fear is that the
problem has something to do with the overhead of OSX running on top
of it's Unix underpinnings, much like how Windows runs on top of DOS.
I think if I could figure out how to tweak the samba settings it
would give me a leg up on the problem. Samba has similar packet
buffers that need to be increased I'm sure.
Upon rereading your original... Perhaps I misunderstood a bit. Your
subject is "streaming music dropouts". I was thinking you were using
the Mac as both a file server and a *streaming* music server. But
perhaps that's not really the case? The Mac simply holds mp3 files
and you're using an mp3 player on a PC or another Mac on your LAN?
You've got the server Mac's HD mounted on your PC/Mac and the mp3
player is accessing the mp3 file as if it was local?
If the latter is the case then check within the mp3 player to see if
you can increase its buffer size. Ditto for Sharepoints. It's
picking up a block of file, passing it to your client Mac or PC and
then waiting. Your Mac or PC then isn't asking for the next block
soon enough - so by the time it arrives, there's an audio gap heard.
If the above is the case, perhaps you should look into real streaming,
instead of just odd file sharing.
- Dan.
I think you have the facts straight this time Dan, my whole point is
this all worked fine (Mac and PC) when I was using Windows on a PC as
the file server, but since switching to the beige G3 as the file
server, it still works fine playing on a Mac on the network via AFP,
but not so with PC's running Windows. Sharepoints uses samba (SMB) for
sharing files with a PC and so I think the bottleneck is samba itself.
Plus the fact that I ran into this very same problem early on in my
file server experiments when using a slow Pentium based PC machine
running Linux. The files would play fine for awhile and then gaps
would suddenly appear in the music. Tweaking the samba packet buffers
helped, but I never could get it to work like I wanted, so I gave up.
After that I switched to a Pentium II 233 Mhz based PC with 128 Mb of
RAM, running Windows 98SE and this setup worked just fine. I got tired
of constantly having to replace the CPU fan and decided the beige G3
should be the perfect solution to my problem. I have no CPU fan
worries now, but as you can see, I'm back to having difficulties with
samba. I did manage to locate the smb.conf file in the /etc directory
in terminal, but have not been successful as of yet to modify the file
with the new buffer settings. I'm using vi, which I'm not that
familiar with and it keeps telling me that I cannot modify the file as
it in read only. I'm not even sure this will fix my problem, but it's
a step in the right direction I feel.
Just a message from Doug...
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