zub;591400 Wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> I find that running a NAS just for the Touch is too much hassle and is
> also energy hungry. 
> 
> However, the problem is that I would also like to get access to the USB
> hard drive where is my music from other device or computer.And, also,
> the hard drive connected to my touch is not very beautiful and looks
> crappy in my bedroom.
> 
> Thus, I think that the best way is to have the hard drive somewhere
> activated as a network drive. Some tiny routers/modems running on Linux
> have a usb plug and enable to share the hard drive connected to it.
> 
> As we are mastering the command line in ssh on the touch, I would like
> to know if you have a solution to prompt the TinySB to look into a
> network drive instead of the USB drive.
> 
> Is there a file that I can change to tell this TinySB to have a look at
> \\livebox\music.

The Tiny SBS is not designed to look at a network share. Under some
circumstances it can be done, but its not easy. Its WAY better to run
SBS on the external box which is also serving up files to other
computers. This works very well and gives you the full functionality of
SBS. This is what vortexbox does, its a linux server that has SBS and
samba for sharing any files on the box with other computers. You can
set it up as a video server as well. It also has a DLNA server. 

If you want something really small and silent but still quite powerful
a FitPC2 running vortexbox software is great. The cheapest way to do
this is with a sheevaplug and squeezeplug software, but I don't think
it comes out of the box setup as a general purpose file server, but
setting it up to do so is not very difficult (WAY easier than getting
TinySBS to read a network share)

John S.


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