Skinny;372462 Wrote: > OK, thanks to everyone for your replies. I went and installed > ClarkConnect with Samba and SqueezeCenter, and the system is now > functioning very well. I even get great response from SC to my SBC, I'd > say slightly better than when running SC on my C2D laptop under XP. And > this is for a Celeron III / 600 MHz. Of course, certain tasks are > slower, such as scanning. Transferring files from Windows to the > external HD (which is now formatted to EXT2) works really well over the > network. > > I can recommend ClarkConnect for anyone wishing to setup a dedicated > file / SC server, since there's a very good step-by-step guide: > > http://www.ulverston.myzen.co.uk/mini-itx/index.htm > > Everything worked first time for me. > > Next up will be a wooden crate inside which I shall install the laptop > internals + external HD with some quiet fans, but that's another story > :) > > Thanks again to everyone.
Radical solution, but the answer was formatting to ext3, although I find that a FAT formatted drive works well with linux, but also allows easy swap to a windows PC if you needed to. -- Ramage T5500 1.6GHz, SC 7.2-22869 Win Vista, Alien 2.0 P4 2.6GHz, SC 7.3-23688 WinXP, Alien 2.2b1-7.3 P2 266MHz, ubuntu server 8.10 SC 7.4~24326 Alien 2.4a2-7.3 AMD64x2 ubuntu 8.04, SC 7.3-24298, Alien 2.4a1-7.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56652 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
