JackOfAll wrote: > > > 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?
No I never use both together. JackOfAll wrote: > > 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. I guess that most users will want to mount a networked share (music stored on a NAS or any other external file server system). And a smaller part of users will use a USB drive. I'm pretty confident that 99% of the intended audience will use only 1 source at the time. To me, a network share provides the most flexible system too. One does not need to unmount and unplug a USB drive when the user wants too add music to his / her system. With a NAS or file server, the music is available to any computer on the network. I guess that level 2 already adds a certain amount of complexity. As I'm currently doing this manual (cmd line), there is fstab to be edited and a separate file where the user and password credentials are stored (I don't put these in fstab for security reasons). Only root has read / write rights to the credentials file all other users have no rights. 1 x SB3, 1 x SB Boom, 1 x SB Radio and 2 x SB Touch - all wireless 1 x Wandboard Dual behind the bedroom ceiling 1 x Wandboard Dual for 'msqueeze' (http://www.msqueeze.co.nf/index.html) project ReadyNAS NVX running LMS 7.7.3. w iTunes plugin iPeng 7 on iPhone. SqueezePad & iPeng 7 on iPad. http://www.last.fm/user/phibon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal Hibon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7969 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
