[ale] home media/file server

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

On 09/10/2013 02:29 PM, Sparr wrote:
> I haven't kept up with media streaming technology for the past 5-10 years (UPNP
> is still hot stuff to me), especially proprietary stuff (like how an XBox360
> gets media from a Windows desktop on a home network). However, I now find myself
> in a house full of people who want to share all of our media with each other,
> and do all of our media acquisition, with a centralized server.
> 
> I do not want to spend more than a few days tinkering with configuration files
> and network daemons and such. Is there a good mostly-Free mostly-free solution
> to this problem?


samba and/or nfs.  Pretty much any device can mount shared storage and playback
supported file types. Transcoding is a different issue, if needed.