[PLUG] nfs v. samba

Rogan Creswick creswick at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 22:08:39 UTC 2005


On 12/13/05, dan at fiddlers-green.info <dan at fiddlers-green.info> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm setting up cheap multi-zone audio using 4 seperate linux boxes with sounds
> cards around my house. I have a central server with my ogg vorbis files that
> I'll share out to each of the audio boxes. My question is should I use samba or
> nfs, and why one over the other?

It may be simpler to stream the audio with something like icecast, and
have each client machine play from the stream rather than a file. 
This, of course isn't without tradeoffs -- you'll have synchronized
audio everwhere, but changing from one song to another is not as easy.

--Rogan

>
> thanks,
>
> Dan Herrington
>
>
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