streaming media from pc to vu+duo

[frenzal]

I was wondering if anyone has sucessfully set up there vu+duo to stream media from a pc to the vu+

[xarqi]

Not streaming, as I understand the term, but I've had no trouble at all playing a variety of multimedia types over my LAN from a 1.5TB external firewire 400 drive attached to my 2.1GHz iMac G5 under OS X 10.4.11 using SMB.

[frenzal]

how did you achieve this?

[xarqi]

Enabled "Windows File Sharing", which starts SMB services on the mac.
"Shared" the movies folder.
Since I wanted to use an external drive, I used "SharePoints" to share the folder. If it had been on the internal drive, I would not have needed to.
On the Duo, "Browsed" the LAN and found the shared folder.

I did it this way at first since my Duo (at my request) did not ship with an internal drive, so I was recording over the LAN to the shared folder. That is a bit of a hassle since it meant I couldn't just set and forget a timer, I had to make sure the mac was powered up.

Another approach would be to use a dedicated NAS server, but that doesn't suit me.

I've since put a 1 TB Samsung F3 in the Duo, but I can still easily browse whatever is on the mac folder when needed.

[frenzal]

ok thanks did you have a password on your shared folders

[xarqi]

Ummm - I don't recall - probably.
In setting up the share, I'd have specified the users permitted to access it, which would require authentication by any remote (even on the LAN) client wanting to use it. There is provision for entering user names/passwords when setting up the path to the folder in the Duo.

It's one of those things I set up once, a while ago, and now it just works transparently.