[clug] uPnP servers for linux

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Fri Nov 7 05:50:15 GMT 2008


Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> writes:

> I'm fed up with trying to make NFS reliable on the kids Mac. Frankly,
> MacOS' support for NFS is terrible (you need some GUI tool to set it
> up, and the machines keep forgetting about it). Given all the kids
> care about is streaming video, I'm wondering if running a uPnP server
> is a better option.
>
> What uPnP server sucks the least?

As far as I can tell, none of them.  Personally, in your situation
I would just run up Samba and use SMB from the Mac to the Linux system,
which is reportedly as reliable as you might want...

Regards,
        Daniel


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