by 2fletch » Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:01 pm
I don’t know if this will help, but this what I have going on with my digital media that I believe what you are looking for.
I have a dedicated server running SBS 2003 (P4, 2.8GHz, 1 MB RAM). There are 3 laptops, 2 netbooks and 1 desktop computer connected to its domain. The desktop is wired; the others have the option of wired or wireless.
In addition, the users (wife and kids) use one of these as their portable players (iTouch, iPod, Palm TX, Sandisk Sansa). The media players used is WMP, MM and iTunes.
All of my media is stored on 5TB of drive storage. Some partially RAID.
The nice thing about running SBS 2003 is that I can control the sharing rights of the data. Users can access the files but they can not modify it.
In setting up your Windows server box, you want to use 2 NIC, even though 1 can be used in the configuration. Make sure all of your NIC, switches, hubs are at least gigabyte interfaces. This makes view video much more robust.
Check your thoughts on purchasing a media extender, unless you have a xbox 360. a PC connected computer is going to serve you better.
For music I use MM and for video I use VLAN.
Hope this helps in a way.
I don’t know if this will help, but this what I have going on with my digital media that I believe what you are looking for.
I have a dedicated server running SBS 2003 (P4, 2.8GHz, 1 MB RAM). There are 3 laptops, 2 netbooks and 1 desktop computer connected to its domain. The desktop is wired; the others have the option of wired or wireless.
In addition, the users (wife and kids) use one of these as their portable players (iTouch, iPod, Palm TX, Sandisk Sansa). The media players used is WMP, MM and iTunes.
All of my media is stored on 5TB of drive storage. Some partially RAID.
The nice thing about running SBS 2003 is that I can control the sharing rights of the data. Users can access the files but they can not modify it.
In setting up your Windows server box, you want to use 2 NIC, even though 1 can be used in the configuration. Make sure all of your NIC, switches, hubs are at least gigabyte interfaces. This makes view video much more robust.
Check your thoughts on purchasing a media extender, unless you have a xbox 360. a PC connected computer is going to serve you better.
For music I use MM and for video I use VLAN.
Hope this helps in a way.