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Update (Feb. 2014):
Shortly after posting these instructions in February 2012 I bought a WD
MyBookLive NAS ("MBL") to which I installed LMS 7.8. I liked the MBL so
much, for the price (1TB unit for less than $100) I bought a second one
as a backup unit. As a consequence, I removed the AsusEeePC from service
in my network, at least as for streaming LMS.Then Logitech announced that it was shutting down the Squeezebox line. I could live with that, but then MOG shut down, to be replaced in March 2014 with Beats Music, almost certainly without Squeezebox support. Now what? I switched over to Spotify, but I dislike the official Squeezebox app, compared to the official Squeezebox MOG app. That led me to Triode's Spotify plugin. Problem: the MBL's Applied Micro processor is incompatible with Triode's plugin. My AsusEeePC has an Intel Celeron processor, which is compatible. The task ahead for me was to install LMS 7.8 on the AsusEeePC, connect the netbook to the MBL Public share (where my music files are stored), and reset my Squeezeboxes to point to the new LMS server. For the past couple of days I have devoted far too much spare time to changing the netbook's OS, waffling between EasyPeasy 1.6 and Zorin OS 7.1 Lite, finally opting for the latter, which is based on Lubuntu 13.04 with a LXDE desktop. After a successful Zorin install, I was challenged to install LMS 7.8 using Synaptic Package Manager -- I kept getting a "size mismatch" error -- the reason for which I discovered only while attempting to install from the Linux command line. It seems that the debian repository for LMS 7.8 was at fault. Instead of using Synaptic, I downloaded the LMS 7.8 debian file directly from the nightlys and installed manually from the command line using "dpkg -i [LMS7.8.0.deb filename]." The next challenge was to access my music files on the MBL from the netbook. In Linux, there are always at least four ways to do anything, and everyone has their favorite. So finding a straightforward answer proved surprisingly difficult. Somewhere along my googling I realized that first, the netbook needed to be able to see the MBL in the network; second, the music files needed to be accessible; third, the files needed to be accessible to LMS; fourth, access needed to be read-write; and fifth, access needed to survive a reboot. This thread on the Ubuntu forums helped immensely: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534. Meaning: once I had found the MBL on my network (via Zorin's file manager, fortunately) I had to mount the Public share directory, and add a line to /etc/fstab to mount the directory automatically on boot. In Terminal: 1. Create the mount point: >sudo mkdir /media/mybooklive 2. Mount the MBL's Public share: sudo mount.cifs //[IP_address]/public /media/mybooklive cifs guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 3. Is the directory mounted? >df -aTh The result of this command shows that the Public share on the MBL has been mounted on the netbook! 4. To mount automatically at boot, add the line from step 2 to end of the file /etc/fstab > sudo leafpad /etc/fstab > //[IP_address]/public /media/mybooklive cifs guest,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 5. Test /etc/fstab for errors: > sudo mount -a Everything checked out. I rebooted, the MBL public share was mounted, and then I set up LMS 7.8 to work in my network. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TimT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22971 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91747 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
