Or you can set up Samba shares if you have Win boxes on your home network. Transferrring large files might tax your mythbox a bit.
Thom is right. There is always a security issue when you share however, if you have a firewall there's less of a risk. With NFS, you can limit the risk by limiting the access to computers in your network. --- Thom Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-02 at 10:40 -0600, T. Waldren wrote: > > When I first setup my system, I was playing around > and read somewhere > > that you can give Myth the option to run under > root. At the time I > > thought "hey cool" and did this, without knowing > any of the security > > issues. > > > > Is there a way to reverse this (I think the > command was something like > > # chmod +s /usr/bin/mythfrontend )? Or should I > even worry about this? > > My mythbox is on my home network (can get to the > internet) but I have > > yet to setup it so that the other computers can > get to it. > > > > If you have a firewall, with no port forwarding to > your mythbox, I > wouldn't worry about running it as root, as your > firewall needs to get > hacked before they can get to your mythbox. > > > That leads me to my second question. Being a linux > dummy, what is the > > best way to setup the mythbox (using fedora) so > that I can get to it > > from other computers? I have a ton of cds I > ripped to mp3 that I > > would like to move onto the mythbox - since it is > hooked into my > > stereo system. > > > > There are a few ways. I plan on setting up NFS and > then mounting the > mythbox via an NFS share, then I can just copy or > move files to and from > it with another computer on my lan. Since I don't > have a working myth > setup yet, I don't know where to mount the NFS > shares, but I'm sure > other people do. If hard drive space isn't a > problem, you can move the > mp3's to the myth box I would guess. In my case, I'm > going to have a > backend with piles of storage, and then a frontend > to play things on the > TV. > > I can help with NFS if that's the route you want to > go. > > Other way to do it is to scp the files from one > machine to another. > > The command structure is this. > > # scp music.mp3 > ip.of.myth.box:/where/your/media/is/music.mp3 > > I think you can wildcard it with *.mp3 and just a > trailing backslash. > > > Thanks for the help on the remotes question, > hopefully I'll have some > > time to fix my problems. > > > > Terrence > > r > > u > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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