New TVS-473 built- so now what

[DarfNader]

Trexx, thanks again for everything! I am setting stuff up and figuring out how it works by trial and error. I also found some other guides too so it's slowly seeping into the brain pan! Hopefully next time you hear from me I'll have progress!


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[Trexx]

You are welcome Darf. Good luck and remember. I have rebuilt my system a few times over years for various reasons. It will make sense the more you play/do.

[DarfNader]

You are welcome Darf. Good luck and remember. I have rebuilt my system a few times over years for various reasons. It will make sense the more you play/do.

Thanks- I have done a rebuild only once so far thanks to your help, and I think so far things have been for the most part pleasing. I still haven't quite figured out where you establish permissions on top-level QFile shares so that people other than Admin can actually see them, but I know it is not in the permissions as shown in QFile itself. Oh well- I'll figure it out. How hard can it be, right?

Anyway, I would like to report that over the weekend I got Plex Media Server set up nicely along with a few bonus items like presenting the PlexMediaServer file structure in QFile so I could easily transfer my media there (as Admin of course) and I finally got to enjoy watching an actual move served from my QNAP, and even using my venerable Roku 3 as the player, the performance was outstanding! There is literally less than a second to load the media when it took anywhere from 5 - infinity seconds to load films that were served on my mac mini. Replays take less than a second to jump back 10 seconds when the before very thought of using the Replay feature risked sending my movie into limbo! I feel like I am using a howitzer to kill a housefly, but its nice to see that it was able to do this while barely registering any load, making me confident that I will be able to throw a lot at this machine before it starts to complain.

I take you note about rebuilding to heart, so I am taking notes on all configuration so that I can easily rebuild without having figure out old problems.

[Trexx]

I still haven't quite figured out where you establish permissions on top-level QFile shares so that people other than Admin can actually see them, but I know it is not in the permissions as shown in QFile itself. Oh well- I'll figure it out. How hard can it be, right?

There are 2 things to keep in mind.. WHO is seeing them (local user on QNAP, windows user, etc.) and HOW they are seeing them (Protocol/Method - On Box (ie. native apps), SMB, NFS, etc.).

WHO: http://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.3/cat2/en/share_folders.htm http://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.3/cat2/en/pr ... ttings.htm
HOW: http://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.3/cat2/en/win_mac_nfs.htm