I set up a RasPi exactly for the scenario you have in mind. Initial fill (and maybe regular syncs of larger chunks of data) through USB and usual access from windows through a samba share. SqueezePlug is definitely a very good starting point for this.
Different character sets, however, caused significant problems for me. If you are sure you don't have any umlauts everything might be fine immediately, otherwise you will see funny names in windows for files transferred through samba if you later connect the drive via usb - and vice versa. Mounting with different characterset options, or playing with samba config will solve the problem finally. But it is pretty tedious ... I ended up using ntfs which can be handled by the pi as well. Unfortunately I'm not a linux guy so I don't remember, what I exactly did but there are lots of pointers in the internet -its a well known problem. Just to make you aware of this potential issue. Of course, the easiest way to solve this problem is to avoid umlauts completely, but sometimes this is just not possible .... G�nther ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cadfish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58296 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98939
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