I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions. Being an linux newbie this process was slightly painful. Fortunately, I've got everything up and running.
I went back and did a fresh install of 8.04. My rationale is that most of the documentation on the web is geared toward this version. I immediately installed all of the updates. I used these instructions to mount my freenas shares: http://thatsquality.com/linux/mounting-windows-smb-file-shares-using-cifs The wiki on this topic is about the same, but difficult for me to understand. Using the file browser I right clicked on these newly mounted shares and was able to create working symlinks, which I copied to my music folder. I installed squeezecenter with these instructions: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/DebianPackage I used the testing main option and 7.3.2 (24460) got installed. It ran and played music perfectly. Scanned all of my files (about 32k). Even my 24/96 flacs played. The only residual issue is that the machine hangs when it restarts. Apparently this is a known issue with unmounting of the cifs volumes. I setup desktop remote and can get in with VNC from my vista lappy. The squeezecenter menu is available also through port 9000. The last step is to unplug the montior and keyboard and tuck it away. I'm a little nervous it will stop working after I move it. There is also a squeezecenter update waiting to be downloaded. I'm not sure I will until something stops working. The squeezebox is better than I expected and this process has been totally worth it. -- jbraveman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbraveman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16943 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57502 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
