Hat's off to the Amahi Team

[rbmattis]

Okay, admittedly, on Saturday night I was pretty close to ripping my hair out trying to get some rather basic stuff to work, but now the fundamentals are there.

1) Fedora 14, working
2) Amahi 6, working
3) DHCP, enabled
4) Static IP's, assigned
5) PCI SATA card, recognized
6) 4.5 TB of storage, installed
7) Storage pool, created
8) Samba shares, sharing
9) VPN, operational

Pretty much all that's left is:
1) fixing the unbelievable slowness (adding a gig of RAM to the existing 512 mb) tomorrow
2) figuring out why the speed of samba transfers are very slow relative to the PCI bus (133 MB/s) and GigE (1 Gb/s)
3) figuring out how to move the greyhole landing zone off the small and slow IDE drive
4) getting the DLNA server to work (as soon as it's ready)
5) finding the slickest way possible to share files remotely and stream content. (SMB via VPN works, but is currently wicked slow)
6) adding a limited privilege user (so my friend can access my files but not f/u my server)

I consider the 5 problems pretty small relative to the 9 successes. For someone like me with no Linux experience, Amahi/Fedora was hard, but doable. Unfortunately, I have to deal with the swearing of my Linux enthusiast friends who keep asking, "Why is it on F@#$@#^ Fedora", a question for which I have no answer.

Beyond the quibbles, color me impressed.

[cpg]

Hi,

We often get complaints for the few people where things break, and we do not hear much from the vast majority of people for which things largely work.

Usually the more advanced the user the more in trouble they get. We should call this law a name.

We can help you work through the rest!

Thanks and kudos to the team!

[zia]

Hi,

Having my Amahi Server running now for a couple of weeks, still on fedora 12 and Amahi5, i am also facing a similar problem then you have, in fact i had my samba transfers that were slow. They are now a little faster after having updated the components on fedora (using yum -y update). But the issue is that i have a PCI SATA controller with two 1.5TB HDD, and the transfer speeds between the two HDD is between 15 and 20 MB/s, far away from the 133MB/s.

This causes the network transfer speed to be slow. I have still not figured out what the problem is. Also replacing the PCI SATA controller with a new one did not solve the problem. Maybe it is a hardware problem, driver problem or just something to configure in Fedora?

If someone has a clue how to fix this.

Searching on google gave me just a list of a lot of people facing the same problem on linux.

[rbmattis]

i'm getting network transfer speeds of roughly 40 MB/s... but i'll check the local rates to see if that's the bottle neck... thanks for the idea.

[rbmattis]

Wow.

Tonight I added another gig of RAM, completely decluttered the inside of the server case and added a fan to cool the hard drives.

Then, with the help of the IRC channel, I got VNC and DLNA working.

Now I have a fully operational, headless, HDA.

It's seriously trick. Now all I need to do is pay Time Warner to upgrade my connection to wide band and get VPN setup on my Droid X and I'll be in business.

Thanks again for the Apps, the Wiki, and the IRC channel.

[zia]

I do not have a Gigabit Network, only 100MBit/s, so i should have +- between 7 and 10 MB/s on the network.
I have this now because of the update i did, but the slow speed on the PCI SATA Controller between the disks intercepts on the network speed.
I am installing Windows on the machine just to test if that changes something on the speed, also because i have a CD with windows drivers for the card. If that changes the speed than it could be a driver problem with fedora.