Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-15 Thread hawaiijim
I was hoping to store my songs on an SDHC card connected directly to the Touch, but I just realized that my computer's card reader only handles SD (2 GB max), not SDHC (32 GB max). I use an SDHC card for my camera, but I just transfer files to my computer via the camera's USB cable. If I want to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-15 Thread marlo
Hi everybody, I initially filled my 2.5 USB-drive by directly attaching it to my WHS homeserver and copying the music files with robocopy. Then I connected the drive to the touch and after configuring the share I now can access the share from my homeserver. So far so good. Now when I run my

[SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread Kyruss
Hello, one Question to the Touch Owners... I ist possible to acces the connected USB Drive over the Network, as some kind of share? i jut want to know if i have to unplug it and carry it to my Pc to ad muic or if I can hold it up to date by uploading to the drive? Thanke You for your Time...

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread JJZolx
Kyruss;534147 Wrote: I ist possible to acces the connected USB Drive over the Network, as some kind of share? Yes. First you have to enable sharing through Setting Advanced USB SD Storage Sharing. You might also want to clear the share account's password while you're at it, unless you

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread Kyruss
Thanke you for the fast reply. One more Question came up, while I red Your Post. Is it possible to change the Name of the Workgoup? Regards Matthias -- Kyruss Kyruss's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread JJZolx
Kyruss;534157 Wrote: Is it possible to change the Name of the Workgoup? Oh, boy. :) I've done this. But it may not be easy, depending on how familiar you are with Linux. It may also be overwritten the next time the firmware is updated. First, enable remote login (SSH). Settings Advanced

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread JohnSwenson
Kyruss;534157 Wrote: Is it possible to change the Name of the Workgoup? Yes but its not easy. You have to ssh into the Touch and modify the samba configuration file. There are a lot of configuration settings such as this that are in various configuration files but don't have gui menu

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread maggior
This is interesting. I saw from another thread that the touch can't see directories shared on the network. Would it have been that much more overhead to have the SAMBA client as well as the server running? Regarding seeing the drive connected to the Touch on the network, has anybody managed

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread maggior
JohnSwenson;534339 Wrote: Yes but its not easy. You have to ssh into the Touch and modify the samba configuration file. There are a lot of configuration settings such as this that are in various configuration files but don't have gui menu items. Someone should write a wiki entry on

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread JJZolx
maggior;534342 Wrote: This is interesting. I saw from another thread that the touch can't see directories shared on the network. Would it have been that much more overhead to have the SAMBA client as well as the server running? Regarding seeing the drive connected to the Touch on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread maggior
Thanks Jim. That's what I suspected given the talk of performance limitations. I manage my rips over the network for convenience. My server is in the basement running Linux. I perfer to use dbPowerAmp, a Windows app, to rip. I rip/encode to FLAC at the same time. It saves me the step of

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Access the connectet USB Drive?

2010-04-13 Thread Michael Herger
If this is a common enough operation, it should be managed through the Touch interface itself. Though I suspect most people don't change their workgroup name of their Windows machines from the default of workgroup anyway. As by your conclusion I'd consider this not common enough :-) --