Streaming media files between FC5 and XP

Jer1234 · 04-16-2006, 04:37 PM

I have FC5 on my laptop, and XP on my desktop. I can see my music and movie folder on my desktop and can transfers file in between. How can I stream my music and movies from my desktop to my laptop.

Thanks

Hangdog42 · 04-18-2006, 07:22 AM

I'm not quite sure I get what you are asking. If you can see the movie and music files, can't you play them as you normally would?

Jer1234 · 04-19-2006, 03:30 PM

Like with xp to xp I can stream my movies and music between the two computers. With Fedora I have to transfer the mp3 or avi from my xp machine to my laptop with Fedora 5. I was wondering if there is a way to stream between FC5 and xp.

Hangdog42 · 04-20-2006, 07:21 AM

Basically you want to mount the XP drive on your FC5 box. That would allow FC to see the files, just like they were copied over. That said, I don't have any experience in mounting remote NTFS drives on a Linux box although I would bet that it would be done through Samba. I did find this howto by doing a little googling.

Since this is more of a general networking question than a wireless one, I'm going to ask the mods to move the thread and hopefully someone who has done this will see it.

peter_robb · 04-20-2006, 08:27 AM

Moved to Networking for better exposure..