General :: Home Media And Storage Server?

Jun 2, 2010

i have a spare computer and 4 hds and was planning to make this computer a storage server with a media place aswell... i do have some linux knowledge but never used it for this and am not sure how good it will be initially the media files are in an HD with ntfs format which i want to keep as is... but i was wondering what options i had to make a media folder over network where i could browse and watch from any computer in my network ? is it samba my only options or is there a more media like solution for this ? There will aswell other features i was planning to use on it which made me think of linux, for example, svn server, websever with mysql to testing my applications, connection manager, all these i am sure on how to make and setup... but i am not very familiar with samba hence i am not sure if it is the best options for file sharing aswell as media sharing and/or my only option.i also heard that ntfs might be trouble some for linux in some cases

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General :: Media Storage Options (moved To Server Forum)

Nov 4, 2010

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Accessing the files I found OpenVPN and NFS to work great - however streaming my videos hasn't been so good - its extremely choppy and unwatchable. I realize there is no perfect solution, but is there anything that could be setup to buffer/prefetch/compress videos making them tolerable to watch?

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Apr 1, 2010

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I have Matrix control panel so i can view the storage etc but it does not have an way of clearing the /Var directory.

I have Putty Access to root but do not know which command to use.

I found a few threads but the information is not clear to me as there seems to be an assumption of basic knowledge I don't yet have.

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I have only a very basic understanding of command line but really need to get this sorted ASAP.

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Steps:-
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2) client is started with the PXE boot.
3) it detects the dhcp .
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then I started with the nfs and I have given the lanIp of server.and server is detecting the client but client is not finding the filesystem directory. into export partition directory but it is not taking path.

PATH:-
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Jul 20, 2010

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I'd like this to be completely transparent to everyday use -- all programs designed to interact from a few other servers / computers will still work without modification, and, more importantly, all file permissions can remain the same. As far as I've seen the SMB mounting doesn't full preserve the *nix file permissions. I'm hoping the NFS mount will, but please tell me if I'm wrong. SMB is so much more straight-forward and already working. I should also note speed is a giant plus for NFS.

The Players:
Windows Server 2003 - The Active Directory server
Windows Storage Server 2008 - The new file server
OpenSUSE 10.3 - The workhorse server

I have no control over the operating system choice. I have no control over the AD server. I have limited, intermittent access to the person who does have full control of the AD server. I have full control over the file server and the workhorse server.

What I've done: The Storage Server is running Services for Network File System (NFS). It has a 6.5ish TB RAID partition configured for NFS and Samba/CIFS sharing which is used for the data storage. The Samba/CIFS share is mountable and accessible, but I haven't found a way to maintain proper user permissions on the files. When I connect the owner and group for every file is root:root, which led me to NFS in hopes this would fix the problem.

The AD server admin has installed Services for Unix, and we imported the OpenSUSE passwd and group file. Either this didn't work, or it take a bit more configuration. Tomorrow morning we're going to take a deeper look into the SFU configuration with the AD.

Right now I can mount the NFS share on the OpenSUSE under the root account:

Command results truncated to what I think is relevant info. Ask if you need more.

Code:

My Problems:

I'm hoping the "Permission denied" error is solely because the UID and GID mappings are incorrect. I have, however, tried to create an NFS share with full permissions to "Everyone" and anonymous access, and I get the same results.

Also I've run into another roadblock. Why do non-root accounts fail to execute the mount /mnt/datadir command?

Code:

AFAIK 1048 is not a restricted port, so regular users should have access to bind to the port. I also have a Gentoo machine where regular users are allowed to execute the command. The 'mount' command shows that the NFS share was mounted with the username executing the command too.

Server NFS Config:

Code:

The following are the settings on localhost

The above was written yesterday and not posted in hopes I could solve the problem this morning. I failed.

Update: The domain admin installed an NIS server on the AD server. I installed an NIS server on a Gentoo Linux box. They weren't able to communicate. The Linux box thought the Windows NIS service wasn't running and Windows couldn't find the Linux machine. NIS led to a dead-end right about there. I also tried to manually link the user accounts to UNIX UIDs via the AD user properties window to no avail.

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May 10, 2011

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bellow the detail of my drives
/dev/mapper/mpath0p6 1.6G 287M 1.2G 20% /
/dev/mapper/mpath0p7 837M 240M 554M 31% /var
/dev/mapper/mpath0p3 4.1G 2.5G 1.4G 65% /usr
/dev/mapper/mpath0p2 5.1G 1.7G 3.2G 36% /home
/dev/mapper/mpath0p1 200M 24M 166M 13% /boot
tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/mpath0p8 356G 303G 36G 90% /filesrv

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Jan 1, 2010

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Sep 7, 2010

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Apr 28, 2010

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Dec 14, 2010

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I have already attempted and created a folder within the Home directory and called it usbpen.

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Jan 15, 2011

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Nov 27, 2010

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