gharris999;430197 Wrote: > Personally, I'd really, really stay away from exposing the guts of > SqueezeCenter like that over samba. A much more straight forward > approach, in my mind, is just to use WinSCP as a graphical windows > client that (if you log in as root) gives you full read/write access to > the entire machine in a secure manner. It gives you every bit as much > drag/drop convenience as windows explorer browsing samba shares...and a > whole lot more in addition. E.g., WinSCP will take care of the niceties > of fixing up text file line endings and stuff like that as you move > files back and forth from your windows machine to the Linux > server...which is not the sort of thing that samba can do for you. > You'll also be able to keep a handle on the file permissions on the host > machine, which again, samba won't do for you. > > Check it out: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php > > For your other purpose...exposing the music library...I'd heartily > agree that samba fits the bill there.
I've installed WinSCP, do I just use the IP of my linux server as the hostname and my root username and password, I can't seem to get it connected -- dave77 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dave77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=26269 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64118 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
