{"id":3965,"date":"2016-02-09T05:27:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T05:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2016-02-09T05:27:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T05:27:02","slug":"networking-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/02\/09\/networking-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve avoided Windows networking until now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have a Linux workstation in my office upon which I also have all my music.\u00a0 The speakers and sound system I have here are crappy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a Windows-XP machine primarily used for games, but also connected to a decent sound system in another room.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Until now I&#8217;ve been maintaining two copies of my music and transporting from one machine to the other with sneaker net, copying everything to a flash drive, then copying it on to the hard drive of the other machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today I managed to get Samba working on my workstation, shared my Music folder (read only, I don&#8217;t trust Windows not to do something bad with it), and then mounted that share on Z: drive on the Windows-XP machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I would have liked this to happen automatically whenever it was rebooted, but I can neither get the Linux smbd daemon to honor guest OK, or to get the XP machine to remember the credentials.\u00a0 Anybody know a fix for either of these it would be appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve avoided Windows networking until now. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have a Linux workstation in my office upon which I also have all my music.\u00a0 The speakers and sound system I have here are crappy. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a Windows-XP machine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/02\/09\/networking-adventures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}