Hi Alan, just to make sure I understand the issues, you have Ubuntu on an Asus laptop, you have also installed LMS on that Ubunu laptap. Issue 1, you are trying to run a samba server on the Ubuntu machine so you can copy files to it from a windows PC, correct? I have this running at home, I'll have to wait until I get there to give you the config I'm using.
Issue 2, LMS is not seeing the external USB drive but it is seeing directories that are on the internal drive of the laptop, correct? Can you see the files on the external drive from a linux terminal? Bring up a terminal and cd <mount point of the drive> cd <music directory> ls Do you see directories and files? Can you write a file on the disk? touch xyz ls Do you see the xyz file? Next you want to check file permissions, the server frequently runs as a different user than the one that wrote the files, so the files need to have read permission from any user. cd to a directory on the external disk with files and type ls -l This will show the file permissions and owner etc. The first field shows the permissions, if it looks like: -rw-r--r-- you are good, that means the owner has read and write, the group has read and everbody has read. If that last 'r' is not there the server may not be able to read the files. Lets see what the results are from that before trying more esoteric debugging. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92927 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
