2012-05-31, 17:52
Hi,
I looked through the path substitution posts and it doesn't seem that anyone else has brought this up.
What are the advantages of setting up a mySQL database on a server for all the home PCs to access vs just using path substitution to a network share for the library?
On the path substitution page of the wiki I see that it says not to share the library, but I do not understand why.
I currently have 4 windows boxes and an ubuntu server. The server has most(95%) of the media stored on it. I was wondering why I can not just setup a shared folder on the server with basically the complete contents of the xbmc/userdata folder from one of the client PCs. All of the clients would refer to the shared folder through path substitution in the advancedsettings.xml file, which would relieve the need to set up the mySQL database on the server.
I ask this because I would like to run as few services on the ubuntu box as possible. I have had issues with accessing the ubuntu box in the past (through tightVNC) and I don't want to have to bother with something like that whenever I deal with admin tasks. The ubuntu server is mostly used as an oversized NAS share box, so I am hoping to reduce the number of times I have to connect it to my monitor directly to as few as possible. (in other news, if anyone would love to help me get my tightVNC working again, that would be wonderful. It worked great for a few months and just randomly stopped letting me connect one day).
Thanks in advance for your help.
I looked through the path substitution posts and it doesn't seem that anyone else has brought this up.
What are the advantages of setting up a mySQL database on a server for all the home PCs to access vs just using path substitution to a network share for the library?
On the path substitution page of the wiki I see that it says not to share the library, but I do not understand why.
I currently have 4 windows boxes and an ubuntu server. The server has most(95%) of the media stored on it. I was wondering why I can not just setup a shared folder on the server with basically the complete contents of the xbmc/userdata folder from one of the client PCs. All of the clients would refer to the shared folder through path substitution in the advancedsettings.xml file, which would relieve the need to set up the mySQL database on the server.
I ask this because I would like to run as few services on the ubuntu box as possible. I have had issues with accessing the ubuntu box in the past (through tightVNC) and I don't want to have to bother with something like that whenever I deal with admin tasks. The ubuntu server is mostly used as an oversized NAS share box, so I am hoping to reduce the number of times I have to connect it to my monitor directly to as few as possible. (in other news, if anyone would love to help me get my tightVNC working again, that would be wonderful. It worked great for a few months and just randomly stopped letting me connect one day).
Thanks in advance for your help.