Like a lot of people my music collection now lives on my PC, and more and more of my video collection, the problem is my PC lives in a different part of the house to where I watch TV and listen to music. I'd like to access the media files on the PC so I can watch or play them through my home cinema kit. In theory I'd connect my PC to a wireless router, such as: http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-Xtre...ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1231331702&sr=1-115 And connect my home cinema kit to media streamer such as: http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-DSM-...m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=00FZ3AJY4N1B98N7HHZT However my PC runs Linux (Kubuntu 8.10) and I'm guessing that most media streaming devices are Windows or MAC only. Is this a workable solution or are there better ways of doing this with my setup? Thanks. Nick
Just install Samba on your server PC & your streaming device will think it's reading from a Windows share. Samba is available in System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager, or (in a terminal) "sudo apt-get install samba".
Yes, of course, thanks for the tip. I've been meaning to install Samba for some time, seems like that time has arrived!
