4mula1;258809 Wrote: 
> You will have to have Linux mount the drive on your XP box with iTunes. 
> I did this with Solaris and XP and it worked fairly well until my wife
> started buying DRM infested music...
> 
> What you'll need to do is share the iTunes folder on your XP box then
> use smbmount from the Ubuntu box to mount it.  Read the smbmount man
> page and that *should* be enough to get you going.  If not, Google
> smbmount and go from there.  Or just watch this thread for all of the
> other helpful replies...

No, be careful with that! It works only if you DON'T use smbfs, but
cifs instead. Smbfs on ubuntu will hang your sockets after a while
(kernel 2.6 limitation) and the ubuntu doc is wrong on this.
Took me a while to find out!

In every other respect the tip is correct.


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