I've put slimserver on a linux box I built out of an older Dell Optiplex down in my basement. The OS is Clarkconnect. I'm a complete newbie to linux, but managed to get the slimserver working fine. My plan is to rip my CDs using EAC upstairs on my Windows XP machine and then store all of them on a USB drive attached to my clarkconnect server in my basement.
Because I'd like this usb drive to be portable and secure, I was recommended to use FAT32 file system so that I could plug it in either to the linux or windows machines in my house. However, I'm having some problems and I'm wondering if the FAT32 file system is to blame. Problem #1 I have about 30gigs of music on my windows xp machine upstairs and I used Samba to copy it all over my wireless network to the usb drive attached to the clarkconnect server. It seemed to work ok until every time it encountered a folder with an accent, umlaut, or other non-english character. I would then receive this error: "Cannot create or replace João Gilberto: Invalid file handle." Is this a samba issue? Or a problem with FAT? Problem #2 As I explained above, I decided on FAT32 because I was under the impression that it was compatible with both linux and windows. But when I plug my FAT usb drive into my windows machine, it doesn't show up under My Computer. When I go into Disk Management, the disk appears, but when I right click the only option is to delete partition. I don't seem to be able to view the contents of the drive. Any suggestions? I posted this on the clarkconnect forum but was only given the suggestion that I switch file systems to ext3. But I'm not sure this will give me the portability I'm after. And besides, I thought that was the whole point of using FAT. I'd appreciate any wisdom anyone can offer. -- bjs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bjs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5618 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27047 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
