OK, thanks guys. What I'm really trying to get at here, is whether anything really needs to be more complicated than what I originally did, "/storage" being the single mount point and either mounting a partition from a USB drive or remote fs on it. It's going to get way too complicated, when considering mounting something and then also having the gui take care of sharing the mount via samba and nfs. (That was asked for before, and is being asked for again, now.) This was already dealt with, by using the VortexBox layout of having the single mount point, /storage, and having it shared via nfs and samba out of the box.
Pascal, do you always use one or the other. ie. a USB drive mounted with your media on it, or a cifs share. Not use both together? What I'm thinking is continue with /storage being the media mount. If you guys are doing things like rsync, you are using the cmd line anyway, you are not using the gui and probably have the skills to create a new directory and mount something to it. There needs to good a good out-of-the-box experience for the people who just expect to plug and play, rather than having to use editors or know about things like fstab. It almost does need to be dumbed down, I think, so someone plugs a USB drive in, it is shown visually somehow by the web-gui, and you are given an option of one or more partitions that you could mount to /storage. (Or assuming, the drive doesn't have any partitions, create one and mount it.) That's level one. Level two, for the slightly more technical, use a remote network share, in which case it is expected that you know the share details, credentials, etc. and can type them into the relevant fields. Level three, well, you're on your own there. It's called the cmd line. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
