[rizmo]

Hey guys, new to forums, just ordered parts for a file server and gonna be using XBMC on my laptop to stream videos from the server.

Dumb question, bare with me, but if i use Filezilla as my FTP server, can I use the SFTP protocol on the server, and will XBMC still be able to stream from the server to my laptop?

appreciate the help.

Once again i know.. dumb question. newbie here.

[FiVAL]

I never done it...

But I did find this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=270806#4

[prae5]

There is currently no supported for sftp as a media source in xbmc.

Better question would be, why would you want to do this? sftp is a slow protocol because of the encryption overheads. Why not just use samba?

[topfs2]

There is currently no supported for sftp as a media source in xbmc.

Better question would be, why would you want to do this? sftp is a slow protocol because of the encryption overheads. Why not just use samba?

There is in Dharma. Just add sftp://user:pass@host/path

[prae5]

There is in Dharma. Just add sftp://user:pass@host/path

I stand corrected ;-)

[rizmo]

ooo interesting. thank you guys

There is currently no supported for sftp as a media source in xbmc.

Better question would be, why would you want to do this? sftp is a slow protocol because of the encryption overheads. Why not just use samba?

to answer your question, the server is gonna be in my friends house, who's a little more than paranoid about her ISP questioning and eavesdropping her suddenly skyrocketing upload, followed by a warrant issed by the popo to raid her house in the middle of the night for streaming videos.

Needless to say, she wants this stuff to be a bit more secretive and private.

Is that reasonable? or even possible?

[topfs2]

ooo interesting. thank you guys



to answer your question, the server is gonna be in my friends house, who's a little more than paranoid about her ISP questioning and eavesdropping her suddenly skyrocketing upload, followed by a warrant issed by the popo to raid her house in the middle of the night for streaming videos.

Needless to say, she wants this stuff to be a bit more secretive and private.

Is that reasonable? or even possible?

It is, and read what I wrote:
In Dharma, put

Code:

sftp://user:pass@hostname/path

as source

[johoja]

ooo interesting. thank you guys



to answer your question, the server is gonna be in my friends house, who's a little more than paranoid about her ISP questioning and eavesdropping her suddenly skyrocketing upload, followed by a warrant issed by the popo to raid her house in the middle of the night for streaming videos.

Needless to say, she wants this stuff to be a bit more secretive and private.

Is that reasonable? or even possible?

Must have a nice upload b/w to be able to stream stuff.

[YodaEXE]

I truly doubt that your friend has the upload speeds needed for this to be feasible.

[topfs2]

I truly doubt that your friend has the upload speeds needed for this to be feasible.

Some have 100mb connection to the internet, so that just shows assuming is bad for ya!

[aeiah]

ah yes, a swede :p

damnyou and your fast internet.

for the record, on my lan i get 20mb/s through FTP and about 9 or 10 mb/s over ssh/sftp. this should be fine for streaming movies, provided your friend's bandwidth is capable of that.

since sftp isnt really a streaming protocol, you might not get adequate buffering, so you may get pauses if the connection is interrupted for even a second. if this is the case and xbmc cannot buffer that kind of link, you may have to do some funky things like tunneling upnp through ssh etc.

[jonaz]

I truly doubt that your friend has the upload speeds needed for this to be feasible.

many people where i live (sweden) have 100/100 or even 1000/1000 connections to the internet. No problem streaming everything here!

[Flomaster]

I need to move to Sweden just for the interwebs then

-=Jason=-

[shadylog]

Can dharma use pub/private key pairs with sftp?

[jawilljr]

Can dharma use pub/private key pairs with sftp?

I use sshfs with pub/private keys with XBMC, no problem... so the answer is yes. But then again I only use Linux... if you are using Windows I do not know.

Jerry