davephillips,

I think you want to change how Ubuntu is mounting the drive - I assume
you are going to leave the drive attached permanently? If so, then you
want to edit your fstab file.

The problem is that Ubuntu is mounting the files with a umask of 077,
and so the files are not visible by the Slimserver daemon. If you
dismount the drive, using the umount command, and remount using
something like: 
mount /dev/sdf1 /media/disk -t vfat -o
rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8=true,umask=000

If you use a uid of 1000, then the disk will mount as if it is owned by
the account you logged in as at the console. Otherwise, the files should
show as being owned by root.

Either way you will be able to set your music directory in Slimserver,
and scan it. 

The ultimate solution of course is to edit your fstab file to mount the
file system properly everytime Ubuntu boots up. An fstab entry would
look something like:
/dev/sdf1 /media/disk vfat defaults,utf8,umask=000,gid=46 0 1

I hope this helps.

-Ron


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