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so here's my thoughts lately. i'm not even sure if this is possible, but i'd like to look into it more. what i think i'd like to do is set up my home network to stream my music and/or any movie files to other computers or my android phone. in other words, i want to set up my own "cloud". i have a router (linksys E4200) that allows me to plug in an external USB drive, and what i want to do it be able to acess that drive over the internet. is this even possible? i can currently plug a small USB stick into it and my home work station can view and play stuff from it over my home network. the trick is being able to acess it from an outside source. i THINK i need to learn how to enable port forwarding, but again, im not sure. i'm learing this stuff as i go.

so any help from the shamoozalites would be appreciated. thanks duders.

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I've never done that for devices outside of my local network, but I think that you can do it with Plex. Might be something to look into.

I'm almost 100% positive that any USB drive hooked up to the router can be seen by other media devices on wifi even if my tower is off. It would be great if that was something I could set up to access vie FTP or to stream my media over the net to outside machines or my phone.

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It is pretty easy with the right equipment. Unfortunately, the E4200 isn't fully supported yet when using DD-WRT, OpenWRT, or Tomato (which are linux distributions designed to run on routers). If you are running one of those, it is just a matter of turning on ftp and adding a rule to the firewall to accept the connection from the public wan connection.

I actually have 4 routers running DD-WRT or Tomato at the moment. Two Linksys WRT54GL, one Netgear WNDR3700, and one USRobotics something or other. One of the linksys routers is set as my DHCP/DNS server so that even internally all my network devices have DNS name resolution (i.e. I access them via HTPC, Wii, PS3, Thor, Athena, Hades, droid1, droid2, etc), which makes life easier. The WNDR3700 has a USB attached memory stick, but I don't have any media streaming from it (that is what Thor and HTPC are for). Thor is actually a Sun Ultra60 workstation/server with 4 15k RPM SCSI drives, and 3 firewire attached external drives. That is the system I use when I need to share something external to my network, as it is running a hardened Solaris 10 OS, with quite a few custom modifications I made (for instance, it looks like a Windows XP PC from a port scan, I also wrote some custom firewall monitoring software which watches the access and scan logs in real time and updates block rules against the IP addresses/subnets/ISP network blocks from systems that try and probe down the system or access it repeatedly).

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You know what's related to media streaming? Not this post.

I dug out my old 80gb Zune in the hopes of using it in my car, and just leaving it there. Does anyone know any ways to manage the music on it without installing the Zune software? I don't want some other crap managing my library...

you can always get a NAS Frank. I am thinking of getting one of these. it has an easy GUI to set up ftp access and does most of what you are talking about including streaming to android and idevices

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822108065

so i'm a little confused....it says "diskless". i'm assuming its a host that you add the HDDs to?

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Ya. you throw some disks in there and fire it up.

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Yeah, but I seriously wouldn't bother with something that only has 2 disks.

That said, disks have already started going up a lot since all the flooding in Thailand. Thought I would post a photo:



And yes, I wish we had an "I eat free zone"

(That photo is of one of the hard drive manufacturing plants, you can see it in the background, don't know if it is one of Western Digital's or Seagate's, as it was not specified who's was who's on the site I saw it, they just had lots of photos of all of them, Western Digital has all their factories there now. Seagate just has one which makes parts, not the whole drive).

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Who knew all these tech companies had their manufacturing done in Thailand. The only reason I found out was when my stock tanked. Damn floods. Ruin everything.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

I could have told you that. There are also a lot of tech factories in Malaysia as well (AMD, Intel, Seagate, and LG I believe).

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