I'm in the same situation you are. Right now, I have to use handbrake to transcode on my XP machine. I have a Karmic installation on a laptop, I may try this out and see what's on the up and up.

^^^ Great, thanks for the help. I'll try that later tonight. So far things are running pretty smoothly. I have the occasional hiccup regarding internet connectivity, but if I restart the DNS and DHCP server, I'm good to go.

one word: VLC!

Will VLC show a library format? If so, I need to go digging through it!

I use XBMC on my ubuntu box as a front end. Try it out! http://xbmc.org

^^^ Thanks. I've got server up and running, shares are being seen just fine. Put all my data on it. My next bump - Fedora is trying apply 312 updates but when I say go ahead, it always seem s to get stumped. Is this an issue? I couldn't find a thread about it. I'll start posting in the other forums ...

You are correct in assuming that, thanks for the response. I actually put all the machines in the "home" workgroup that the hda created. I adjusted the smb.conf files on the other linux machines and just used the home workgroup for the windows machines. No problems! Thanks for mentioning t...

Thanks for the help. I was wondering if a workgroup was necessary for sharing files.

Hey everyone, Great product here. Just installed Amahi with F12 last night, and so far, I like. I'm not that new to Linux, but I am new to Amahi, so I thought I'd post here. I've attached a pic of my home network, with hopefully some relevant information. I do have one question. My domain is "t...