Thats for the advice Scot, to be honest though I was hoping for something a little less complicated that would mean I could use hardware by the likes of D-Link, Linksys or Buffalo and point them at my fedora box to find the mp3's and video files. Any ideas anyone ? On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 17:59 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:10, Mlists wrote: > > I'm thinking about buying a wireless media server this Christmas and was > > wondering what luck people had had with the various solutions out there > > working in a linux only environment. > > While I have not utilized wireless for this I have been using mythtv for > some time now. It has changed the way I watch TV completely. If I was > to set this up again I would utilize a diskless netbootable front end > system and have a single backend system that would have the encoder > cards and drive space. > > >From past discussions on the mythtv mailing list you should be able to > use wireless (802.11g) for the connection between the frontend and the > backend systems. > > I highly recommend mythtv if you are looking for DVR type functionality. > >