[mythtv-users] myth and macs

[mark at onnow.net]

You can share/mount (NFS) either direction from mac to Linux.  Where ever you
have more space.  I use my G5 for an NFS server and it works fine.

Share out your Itunes directory as mythmusic.

Mark

Quoting Bill Oberman <Oberman at BodyMedia.Com>:

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> I'm getting a new shiny mac (switching from pc's).  My old pc was a dog
> (my good hardware was put into making the myth box), so I've never cared
> make the machines interact.  How do other people handle their
> music/image files?  I'm thinking I'd like to use the mac to manage the
> data (assuming this "apple is user friendly" stuff isn't bunk), but I'd
> grown used to being able to view/listen to my files from my living room
> via myth.  The way I see it, rather than try to synchronize data, I have
> to have one machine as the primary data store, and the other connect
> over my network.  Does either machine have an advantage as the primary
> store?  Please bear in mind that while I'm enough of a linux geek to get
> myth running (to the point of compiling things on my own), I'm nowhere
> near a power user.  
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> Once I have that issue figured out, is there a preferred way to share
> the files?  I assume the unixness of mac would allow such protocols as
> NFS, samba, etc...
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> Last, I see some posts about OSX patches on the dev board.  Does this
> mean I could run an "official" frontend on the mac?  Where is this code
> compared to the main trunk (0.16 has been fairly stable for me).
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> Thanks,
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> william
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