SqueezePlug -The Best And "Green" SqueezeBox-Server!

[hyenadog]

Dr bob,

hi,
I use a flash drive to run the os (do all the writing) and the usb HD just to hold the media .. basically because the flash drive responds better to shutdown and Thomas is kindly incorporating a spin down routine for the USB HD in the next version(if its left on all the time .. very useful when music isnt being accessed eg down time or when were listeneing through sbs to podcasts or radio)

I.M.H.O. its very kind of Thomas to dedicate so much of his personal time free of charge to allow many of us linux newbies (and i dont particularly want to spend much time with linux) an "easy" route to setup sbs (which is a pig from scratch on unix) on a dirt cheap platform not designed for the purpose.

rgds

ian

[hyenadog]

Thomas,

hi

as i said it seems to be fine for me now (partitions names swap around but everything doesnt seem to mind)

i'm just happy bar the squeezeslave disconnects everyhting is gr8 :-)

i have my fingers crossed with squeezeslave its the mysqueezebox.com

rgds

ian

[BiBer]

Hi, please try:

cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf_original
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

delete all and copy:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = SQUEEZEPLUG
security = SHARE
guest account = root

[music]
comment = Public Folder
path = /mnt
guest ok = Yes
read only = No

[rootfs]
comment = Public Folder
path = /
guest ok = Yes
read only = No

save,
then:
/etc/init.d/samba restart

You will get two shares: music and rootfs. You will have full access to this shares, read and write!

Please try and report!

Greetings,
Thomas

Besten Dank Thomas, it worked!

[hyenadog]

hi

incidently guys ionics are now shipping a 2.0ghz (plug 3.0) version of the 1.2GHZ sheeva for $99 .. wonder if its software compatible with the 1.23ghz sheeva ?

rgds

ian

[Mark Miksis]

incidently guys ionics are now shipping a 2.0ghz (plug 3.0) version of the 1.2GHZ sheeva for $99

Which one? I don't see a way to order either 2G model yet.

FYI, my understanding is that the 2GHz CPU is the exact same design as the existing one, just a new tapeout to support the higher speed.

[truehl]

Besten Dank Thomas, it worked!

Bitte, Bitte,
I'll integrate this as an option in the new release! You can just choose an option "Simple Samba Configuration and then this will be implemented. Do you find this useful?

Greeting,
Thomas

[hyenadog]

Mark,

hi

http://www.ionicsplug.com/compare.html

http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus2000.html


yep re: shipping youre right though, i just clicked on buy and assumed as it was a valid link it would be this model (2.0ghz) .. looks like just the 1.2ghz are shipping currently

anyway enough of a reason to hold of buying a 1.2 sheeva until the 2.0 comes along - my father will just have to wait a bit longer to inherit my dockstar sbs server (by then hopefully 100% stable and tested)


rgds

ian

[BiBer]

Bitte, Bitte,
I'll integrate this as an option in the new release! You can just choose an option "Simple Samba Configuration and then this will be implemented. Do you find this useful?

Greeting,
Thomas

For a linux newbee it would be very useful, but is a kind of security risk to allow everybody to read/write to the whole file system. Wouldn't it be better to allow only the authenticated users (root for example) to access the shares? I'll try to find time coming weekend to look into it, and will post my config if i succeed.

[sbp]

i had exactly the same issues .. i think the reason why is that when you (im assuming you like me did this) boot from a flash drive (boot/os and swap) and slap in a USB HD in to the top dock then the dockstar rearranges the partition names

Yes this sounds like my problem

so i setup os as sda1, swap as sda2 (following Thomas guidance to activate) and when i inserted (and edited fstab accordingly) every time i warm rebooted i got like you nothing. Cold booting however worked fine (as did any kind of of warm cold rebooting with JUST the flash drive in and USB HD removed)

This is also what I see - BUT how do I do a cold booting. If you mean pulling the power - then I can't boot with both devices connected , I need to have only the USB-stick with the dockstar present.

what was happenening is for some reason the dockstar seems to prioritise the usb ports in a certain order so my partitions were being renamed sbb1(boot/os) sdb2(swap) and sda1 (usbhd) with the result that just warm booting failed

This is not what I see - I can't reboot with the freeagent connected. I have done the swap change as suggested by Thomas.

i then rebooted cold with the HD in (which worked fine despite the partition names being swapped around), ran thomas swap activation process a second time and now it even boots fine for warm reboot (though swaps the partition letters)
ian

Did you write exactly the same during the swap activation process as you did the first time?

[Mark Miksis]

anyway enough of a reason to hold of buying a 1.2 sheeva until the 2.0 comes along

I'm not sure the 2GHz plugs will really be $99, but we'll see soon. The same new CPU is also in the Guruplug Display.