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Choosing filesystem for fileserver problem

  • 11-08-2006 1:38pm
    #1
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I have a descent amount of experiance using xp, osx and linux, but I dont know much about networking.

    I am looking to set up a fileserver for hy home. It will be used mainly for media. I will be writing to it and reading from it using both winxp and mac osx. I want it to be as seamless as possible, ie. mountable in both OS's. Able to set up iTunes library of mp3s on server etc.

    So i guess my question is how should i go about implementing it. Should I install some version of Linux with some file system such as NFS? Will a file system such as this perform how I want it to? Or will I need to use FAT32 for complete interoperability?

    Any help much appreciated.

    Enda


Comments

  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Just install linux with whatever file system you want (i presume i'll be either Reiser or ext3) and use Samba to set up a shared folder


  • #3
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I agree with Sean. Samba ftw. When I was in college we had a ClarkConnect 3 server (a red hat-based distribution) in our flat to control access to the internet connection and share files with the windows PC via samba. It worked very well.


  • #4
    aFlabbyPanda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭aFlabbyPanda


    i used ntfs (greater security then fat) in a similar situation and had no problems with it.


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