Wireless connecting to play music

[Alan Pope]

On 7 April 2011 19:31, Sam Albers <tonightsthenight at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I am envisioning the older machine having
> all the music files on it and being able to somehow connect to that machine
> which presumably would be running Ubuntu. The older machine, connect
> wirelessly to my router, would be plugged into my stereo while the other
> machine would not (although also connected wireless to the router). Also, if
> possible I would like to be able to connect using not only my Ubuntu machine
> but other computers running different OSes (Mac, Windows, etc). Can anyone
> recommend a decent way to accomplish this?
>

You could share a folder out on your old machine using samba or NFS:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo

Or you could install a media server like MediaTomb or Twonky.

Al.