adamg, I think you're getting a little confused with your available
options.

If you want to use the Touch's built-in server (TinyLMS) then you should
attach the USB drive to the Touch's USB port, not to your router's USB
port. It's technically possible to get the Touch's server to see a NAS
over the network, but it adds another significant level of complexity
and it is not reliable.

And you probably can't run LMS on the router. Consumer-grade routers
usually do not have enough processing power to run LMS. And usually you
can't get into them to install LMS anyway.

Going back to the idea of running the Touch's built-in server with the
USB drive directly attached, I wouldn't recommend that either. It works
for some people, but for most it is not reliable. The Touch does not
have the computing horsepower to run TinyLMS reliably. 

If you want to use something other than the PC to run LMS you could look
into one of the NASs that comes with LMS support, but my advice would be
to buy a small form factor pc instead. The "small form factor" could be
anything from a Raspberry Pi to one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=barebones+pc&N=100006668&isNodeId=1
. The small pc will give you much more flexibility than a NAS, and
typically lower cost per unit of processing power (though *some* NASs do
have advantages in terms of ease of setup). 

I guess some of it comes back to _why_ do you want to switch from
running LMS on your pc to something else?


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