My solution? UNIX Services for Windows... which I already had installed. It was free anyway. Well, I set up my MP3's as an NFS share instead,and put an entry in my /etc/fstab to mount it (soft) on boot. Since I was also upgrading to 0.18 and didn't have any significant recordings I trashed the database and allowed it a clean rebuild. Well, it all came up and running the catalog of MP3's was at least twice as fast if not better.
yeah, my file server was running slackware-current w/ samba (for my win desktop i need for the adobe apps), so i figured i'd just use SMB for myth, too ... now i'm using NFS instead and get MUCH better performance (scanning for new mp3s actually finishes now :p) ... also, iirc, there are some limits on file size with SMB that don't exist for NFS, but i'm not positive ... i know i had issues ripping straight (perfect-quality) DVDs to a SMB share ... haven't tried it yet w/ the NFS export yet ...
I'm a firm believer in using UNIX protocols on a UNIX-like operating system wherever possible. They tend to be better supported and standards based. Plus I found the Windows Services for UNIX were excellent.
exactly ... besides, SMB/CIFS was/is microsoft's protocol of choice ... doesn't that say something? "use anything else" :P ... it definitely has more overhead and can be slower than NFS ... plus, you can do some neat/interesting things with symbolic links .. ie: have /nfs_share/tmp symlinked to /local_drive/tmp so when you browse to /nfs_share/tmp you're actually browsing /local_drive/tmp ... i needed that w/ my old (pre-dedicated backend server) setup, but couldn't do it w/ samba
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