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March 08 2010

kaleb
01:34

Accessing Apple Time Capsule From GNU/Linux

Access to content on an Apple Time Capsule under the GNOME Desktop Environment is easy. From the GNOME Panel's main menu bar, navigate to Places > Network. From here, users instantaneously have access to all the content on the Time Capsule and any attached storage devices as long as long as Samba is properly up and running. There is one caveat, however: there is no write access by default.

If one wants to have write access and has already connected to the share with Nautilus, unmount or "eject" it. Then, run sudo mount.cifs //10.0.1.1/"My Book" /mnt/tc -o pass=$tr0ngP@55w0rd from the command-line, where 10.0.1.1 is the IP address of the Time Capsule, My Book is the name of a drive connected to the Time Capsule, /mnt/tc is an empty directory designated for use as the mount point, and $tr0ngP@55w0rd is the Time Capsule base station password. If all goes well, a connection to the drive should be established with both read and write access. This is all fine and dandy if one wants temporary access to the Time Capsule, but for a more permanent mount, one must edit fstab.

The fstab configuration file sets mount points for the system at boot time and is located at /etc/fstab. To set a longer lasting mount point for the Time Capsule, open fstab using a text editor and append the following line:
//10.0.1.1/My\040Book/Share /mnt/tc cifs password=$tr0ngP@55w0rd
The string fragment "\040" is used in this line to designate that a character space is being used. Everything else should be self-explanatory.

If all goes well, a permanent read/write solution has been established from a GNU/Linux system to an Apple Time Capsule. Many thanks goes to Ubuntu Forums and Linux Forums for all the help.

Now with this solution and PS3 Media Server, my home computer network has become a little more connected.
Tags: Linux

March 07 2010

kaleb
00:35

Streaming Media From Linux to PS3 With

Today, I set up a program called PS3 Media Server, or PMS for short, on my home network. It is an application that makes it possible to stream media from one's desktop computer to a PS3. It's pretty handy and sure beats dragging and dropping files to a USB drive just to watch or listen.

On first try, streaming was a bit too fidgety for for my wife's and my tastes, so we opted to do a network copy instead. Although we had to wait for the copy to finish before we could begin watching, we still did not have to dig out a thumb drive, but stutter free streaming would definitely be best. We were just too impatient and wanted to watch an episode of Stargate Atlantis over our fancy new PMS setup now and could not wait on me monkeying around with configurations until streaming was perfect.

In addition to streaming and copying movies to the PS3, other great features include:
  • YouTube Viewing
  • Podcast Streams
  • Internet Radio
  • Image Streaming
PMS even has an innovative way of configuring itself directly from the PS3. This is a must have application for any PS3 owners out there.

EDIT:
I thought that the PS3 may have used some proprietary locked-in service to do its streaming, but I was wrong. After doing some more research, I found out that the PS3 uses a technology standard called DLNA to do its streaming. I posted a question on a forum to find out if in fact PMS was my best option. And now I await answers.
Tags: Linux PS3
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