Rui Alves
07-23-2002, 12:43 AM
Hello all,
I wonder is someone can share some ideas with me on something I want to try at home.
At this moment I have a two-computer LAN: one laptop running mandrake linux and a desktop running windows 98. The linux machine connects to the internet and then shares the connection with the win box. So I have an internal LAN card on my laptop connected to the ADSL modem and a PCMCIA LAN card connected to the LAN card on the desktop PC. This is pretty standard.
What I want now is to add another computer to this setup. This computer would also run linux and would act as a mp3 jukebox on the network. I have seen some scripts that allow the user to play and manage mp3 files from the jukebox computer, the later acting as a server making mp3 files available according to requests usually made through a web browser. The thing is that I would like not only to be able to to that but also to remotely request the jukebox computer to play something by itself (e.g. press play in my laptop computer and get the file sound on the remote computer, something like this). Also I would like to download mp3 files from the internet and store them on the jukebox to play later.
I'm not too sure how to build such a setup (both from a hw and sw point of view - what sw? then what router? a switch? how?) and I would really like to hear your comments on this. If you had to do this, how would you start? What would be your concerns?
Well, sorry for this rather long post and thanks for all the help in advance.
Rui
I wonder is someone can share some ideas with me on something I want to try at home.
At this moment I have a two-computer LAN: one laptop running mandrake linux and a desktop running windows 98. The linux machine connects to the internet and then shares the connection with the win box. So I have an internal LAN card on my laptop connected to the ADSL modem and a PCMCIA LAN card connected to the LAN card on the desktop PC. This is pretty standard.
What I want now is to add another computer to this setup. This computer would also run linux and would act as a mp3 jukebox on the network. I have seen some scripts that allow the user to play and manage mp3 files from the jukebox computer, the later acting as a server making mp3 files available according to requests usually made through a web browser. The thing is that I would like not only to be able to to that but also to remotely request the jukebox computer to play something by itself (e.g. press play in my laptop computer and get the file sound on the remote computer, something like this). Also I would like to download mp3 files from the internet and store them on the jukebox to play later.
I'm not too sure how to build such a setup (both from a hw and sw point of view - what sw? then what router? a switch? how?) and I would really like to hear your comments on this. If you had to do this, how would you start? What would be your concerns?
Well, sorry for this rather long post and thanks for all the help in advance.
Rui