jwb;543367 Wrote:
>
> Part of the problem I'm having is that I can't find the user
> SqueezeboxServer or SlimServer or squeezeboxserver or whatever
> combination when the Squeezebox program is started.
>
It's now 'squeezeboxserver'. The numeric value will depend on whatever
is installed on your system (ie, it asks for an available number and
gets whatever your system says is the next free one).
'cat /etc/passwd' and you'll see something like:
squeezeboxserver:x:123:65534:SqueezeBox,,,:/usr/share/squeezeboxserver:/bin/false
The '123' is the userid of the server on my system. Yours is quite
likely different.
>
> And I get all confused about the drive names and directories etc. Am I
> trying to point this thing to a device, or to a directory? My syntax
> always seems to get kicked back.
>
A partition is 'mounted' onto the file system. The term comes from
ancient days when disk packs where actually mounted into a huge
cabinet. 'mount' (and all its variations: automounters, etc) takes a
partition and inserts it into the file system. My external drive is
usually mounted at /mnt, but that's just me, since it's not a permanent
mount. Only mount (and fstab, mtab, etc) need to know that "/dev/sdc1"
is "/mymusic" or whatever. SBS, and everything else would refer to it
by the "mount point", or where it is attached to the file system.
>
> Why the heck can't I just change it when I right-click on the drive or
> directory and go to "properties" then "permissions"? I'm the user,
> after all. That'd be just easy, now wouldn't it? Anyway, any help would
> be massively appreciated.
You should be able to... if you had permissions. I have machines with
thousands of users on them, so it would be bad to allow anyone to
change permissions. You can only change permissions on things you own.
You can't change permissions on things you don't own. ('root' owns
everything though...)
But that's not related at all to SBS, it's the way Unix works.
>
> The directions here seemed pretty good:
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/MusicOnLinuxUSBHardDrives
> EXCEPT it is screwing my up because logitech changed the names, I can't
> seem to get that nailed down so it works...
See above.
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