OpenSolaris project: Increasing the sound!

Thursday, 1. April 2010

A real home server needs a way to share music over the network, and as we are both Mac users, iTunes share is our way to go.

But, it seems as there is a version of Firefly for OpenSolaris, but I prefer the installation of Firefly inside a Debian VM. It was pretty easy to set up, downloading Sun’s VirtuaBox (free!), Installation within a few minutes and in the end, setting up the virtual Debian. This all was done in less than 1h.

To access the files on OpenSolaris, I simply installed the Samba client for Debian, and mounted the share within the /etc/fstab with the following command:

//192.168.0.50/share /media/share smbfs defaults,credentials=/etc/recurring.smbpass 00

The credentials are stored in an external file (username & password).

The installation of Firefly was Debian-like pretty easy…

apt-get install mt-daapd

Just a few changes to the /etc/mt-daapd.conf (for example, run as root, so that I will not run into any trouble with file rights), adding a password and we’re done.

“Urd”, another name from my fav. Mangas is shown up thanks to the Avahi daemon running on the Debian VM.

Ciao
Dennis

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