Hi everyone, i’m very new in the forum, though i’m long time openSUSE user, usually i managed to get things going by searching the net and wiki, but it seems with the wiki in revamp and i’m just getting back to openSUSE after using ubuntu for a while because of certain software that i needed, i guess i’m a little bit out of touch with openSUSE. So please forgive me if i’m in the wrong thread, i tried to search for amd brazos in the forum and haven’t find anything, so here i am pleading for answers.
I downloaded the live cd and 64 bit dvd the first day it came out, the live cd runs great on this laptop, didn’t even needed to download any drivers and the wide screen display was detected after install, but somehow this instalation has issues with nvdia repo, don’t know why. But that is not my question. My problem is with the AMD Brazos MSI E-350 i purchased recently. I’m trying to use it as a file server in a multi-OS environment and a multimedia server using xbmc.
I installed opensuse 12.1 64 bit with all 4 HD plugged in, and i used custom partitioning to mount other disks too. Every part of instalation works well, from multimedia, vga driver, and repo switch to packman, but the frustrating part comes after that. When i tried to move data from my external hard drive to empty disks i plugged in the brazos, somehow i wasn’t able to do anything on the drive, and when i checked, all the hard drives were owned by root, i tried changing the owner and permissions by going to terminal and opened up dolphin in super user mode, “kdesu dolphin”, i tried changing the owner three times, and the permissions three times too, it seemed processed, but after it’s finished, there seems nothing has changed, the owner is still root, and the permission for others are still read only.
i wanted to use it as a file server, but with how things are going, i can’t even write to my hard drives without switching to root, i know it’s still a few more steps ahead, but i wanted to try out samba and nfs, and i’m still not sure which one is a better solution for file sharing. i had to have a file server since my data is growing and using external hard drive readers are not enough anymore.
to sum it up, my problems with openSUSE 12.1 on AMD MSI e-350 e-45 are these :
- HD ownership and permissions, how to change it actually ? command line is fine, havent tried the chmod though, since i think the GUI should be able to do so too.
- Which one to use to share files properly ? samba or NFS ?
few pointers about where to get the proper instruction would be very helpful, thanks in advance.
Anyone got experience in multimedia server too ? any info would be great ^^, since i havent been able to play 1080p properly even though the hardware specs said it have the ability to do so.