My current machines are faster, but I regularly stream/burn two+ ISO images over gigabit ethernet without any performance problems.  I also watch DVD movies without stuttering the same way.  Even for a P2/P3, you shouldn't have trouble with audio.  Have you monitored the stats on both ends while the stuttering happens?  You might be running something like compression or encryption that could tax the CPU.  Alternatively, you could try NFS (or preferably NFS4, although I just made the switch myself).  Also, are you running a kernel with the preemptive options enabled?  If not, then you should be for this type of work. <div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/22 David Singer <<a href="mailto:david@ramaboo.com">david@ramaboo.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have all of my music (about 150GB) on a P3/512MB Ubuntu Server 8.04 box in the other room. I typically work on my Laptop Core 2 Duo/4GB Ubuntu 8.04 (either 100Mbit or Wireless). I was wondering if anyone knew a good solution for playing my music off my P3 Server on my Laptop. I have tried samba mounting my music folder with the following script: #!/bin/sh smbmount //<a href="http://192.168.43.41/music/" target="_blank">192.168.43.41/music/</a> /home/david/Music/ -o username=david,password=mypassword (192.168.43.41 is my P3 server) This works to access my music (a mix of mp3/flac) but it skips when I play it with VLC/Songbird/every other media player iv tired. I can of course copy some of it to my files to my local disk and play it fine from there but this a huge pain and i would really like to be able to use Songbird to create play lists / organise my files. I was hopping someone might have found a good solution for remotly playing music (preferably with Songbird). I googled a bit with no success. Optionaly i would like something that would work with Movies as well but i could live without this. Some sort of ACL would be nice as well since there are other poeple on my network i would like to give read (but not write) access to. Thanks -David _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>