Friday, January 18, 2013

What is the common place to mount a network drive in linux.?

Q. I have a Ubuntu server that I hope to use to share files to my roommates using Samba. I know I can mount the drive anywhere and then share it but is there a common place that it shold be mounted?

A. With Ubuntu most drives (other than the obvious /, /boot, /home, etc.) are mounted under /media, but it really doesn't matter.

Playstation 3 as a Media Center Extender, how can it read my networked external hard drive?
Q. I use my PS3 as a media extender. However it only reads the pictures, music and movies in my documents in Vista Home Premium. I have a Network attached storage unit with Gigs of music, movies and pictures.How can I get my PS3 to read those files without having them stored locally on my computer. Or even if there is a unit that can do that. Thank you in advanced.

A. There are a couple of things you can do:
* Set up a UPnP (universal plug and play) server on your computer that will be detected by your PS3 (this is what I do)
* Move all those files to a USB Drive then plug that into your PS3 (this will remove the files from your computer but not take up all the space on your PS3, plus you can get cheap USB drives with lots of space (300GB+) now days)
* Look into getting a file server for both your PS3 and Computer. A small Linux box would work best for this and they have models on ThinkGeek.com

I recently switched to Linux Mint From Windows for obvious reasons?
Q. Why does it take so long for me to upload one cd, where with windows media I could upload at least five in the time mint takes to upload one, am I missing something? Please fill me in and help. I do not want to spend the rest of the year uploading my music library.

A. do you mean rip? upload would imply a web server... try a different ripper and check the setting to make sure the rip speed is on auto or max, it might be on 2x by default



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