[mythtv-users] Setting up a separate server to store recordings.

[Drew Tomlinson]

Paul Kidwell wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I'm in the process of putting together a separate server to store my
> recordings, pictures,
> and videos on.
>
> It uses an 8 port RocketRaid board and presently has a 2TB RAID 5 installed.
> (The RAID5 is because I'm going to be using this for my photo and
> video archive as well)
>
> It's presently set up with Windows 2003 Advanced Server and seems to
> be working fine.
> (I've been dumping multi-gigabyte files back and forth to it across my
> 1000Base-T network)
>
> I tried setting it up with various flavors of Linux with no success.
> RocketRaid says their board
> has linux drivers, but I failed in every attempt to get it running. RR
> tech support told me I had
> the wrong type hard drives. (i.e. they blew me off)
>
> My back end presently has two PVR-500's, but I'm thinking of adding a couple HD
> encoders to my network.
>
> I have a pair of Xboxes running XBMC plus my PC serving as front ends,
> (the Xboxes will be
> replaced when I add HD capability)
>
> I was wondering if I'd be running into trouble setting up my MythTV
> network to use Samba
> to access the storage drives on the Win2003AS machine?

I don't know about a Win2003AS machine but I have shared many video, 
audio, and picture files via CIFS mounts to a Windows XP box for years.  
No problems.

Cheers,

Drew

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