For the OP, here is a little background on the issue and some possible ways to deal with it.
The server (SBS) was architechted to be controlled through a web page (called the web UI) hosted by the server. This was the method for making server settings such as what directory to use for the libray, a button to push to do a scan etc. In order for the server to run in the Touch memory several things had to be turned off, one of them being the web server, there simply isn't enough memory on the Touch to support it. The leaves things in a strange state, there is now no way to control the server! The developers then had to come up with a way to enable the server to be usable without the user being able to control it in any way. Since there is no way to specify where to scan on the disk the only option was to scan the whole thing. Since there was no way to have a button that says "scan now" the only option was to scan every time it started up. There were a large number of choices that had to be made so the server was usable at all given that the user could not change the behavior. Thats the upper level view of the situation, the lower level view is that there ARE files in the Touch file system that control the behavior of the server. You have to SSH into the touch and use linux commands to edit these files. And even then it probably won't work. The server reads the files at startup and puts the parameters in its memory. Then at various different points in its operation it writes those values back to the files. Thus if you manually go in and change the file, the server will most likely overwrite it with the original value. In order to get it to stick you have to kill the server, make the change, then restart the server before it will see the change. This is not something they want normal users doing. After saying all that, the code that governs these two behaviors (what directory to use for the music library and to scan every time) is included as regular text files on the Touch. Its in perl code which can be edited with a regular text editor, it doesn't take any special code development environment to modify. Everything that is unique to the Touch is in a file that has OS specific code. I don't remeber the name of the file but it is in there somewhere. The specific OS is SqueezeOS (the linux used in the Touch). So someone other than an official Logitech employee could make these changes. Its in perl and I can't stand perl so I'll leave that to others that are more adept at server coding. Even if those changes are made, you will still need to go through the process of editing a file in the right way to tell it what directory to use and when to do a scan. As others have mentioned, I really think the best way around some of these not easily solved issues with the internal server is to go with an external server. For example a FitPC2 is the size of the palm of your hand, has no fans, is dead quiet and uses 5 watts. Put vortexbox software on it and you have a full blown server that can do everything without restrictions. Its just barely big enough for a 2.5" drive so its probably going to be the same size or even smaller than your external USB drives. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85984 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
