Dummy Questions from a new SB Touch Owner

[woodnut]

Hello,


I have had my SB Touch a few days now and have been running it standalone with an external USB HDD playing FLAC files. So far I am very impressed.

Would anyone be so kind as to answer some questions for me on the networking facilities of the Touch? I have read through the very brief manuals and many of the posts on this forum but I admit I am totally confused on this area of the Touch. I think that the problem lies with the fact that I do not understand the relationship between myqueezebox.com , The Touch and its internal server TinySC and the Squeezebox Server software.


Here are some of the questions relating to functions on the Touch that I have been unable to work out :




1. How do I move files from my computer to the Touch and also to the HDD attached to the touch? I cannot see the Touch on my computer when I look at network connections and have installed the SB Server software on my laptop (even though I am using TinySC with computer off when listening to music). Can an ddress be typed into an internet browser? I tried the address given by the Touch but I was still not asked for password or username. I have enabled sharing and SSH on the Touch.

I found soundchecks blog with scripts to disable the analogue output. I would like to be able to access the files on the touch and to try disabling the analogue output as per the blog.



2. The Patch Installer does not show any patches or any options to show non recommended patches. I want to fix the audio output at 100% as per a post on this forum for the fixed output patch.



Many thanks, sorry for the dummy questions. I have tried to find out for myself but am not really getting anywhere.


Cheers

[Teus de Jong]

After enabling sharing, the Touch should be visible in your network. If not, try (e.g. in Explorer) to connect to \\Squeezeboxtouch\media-sdb1 (supposing you're under Windows).

If you succeed in connecting, you can transfer music files via your network to the Touch USB disk, but it will be slow. What I do (and most people I think) is attach the USB drive to my computer and put the files I want on it.

For SSH you need a telnet program (I use PuTTY on my PC) to 'enter' the Touch. Just enter the ip-address into the right field in PuTTY and enter the default password 1234 to enter the Touch. You have to look at the posts where the tweaks are described to see where (in which folder) you'll find the files you want to alter.

Teus

[Phil Leigh]

If you want to see your HDD attached to the Touch, then don't install Soundcheck's first tweak as that turns off Samba Filesharing...

[woodnut]

Hi,


Thanks for the replies. I shall have a look when I get home now I have been pointed in the right direction.


Yes I am under windows XP, sorry forgot to mention that detail.

I was only going to try switching off the analogue output (I just use the digital) out of Soundchecks tweaks as I did get the impression most of them would disable things that I need for using the internal server with external HDD.


Cheers.

[woodnut]

Hello,


I have just downloaded PUTTY and put in the address as 192.168.1.30

Then when it asks login as i enter squeezebox (as per what it says for the sharing account) then I enter the password 1234. The cursor doesn't move at thispoint but I assume that this is normal. Anyhow I get access denied as below:



squeezebox
squeezebox@192.168.1.30's password:
Access denied
squeezebox@192.168.1.30's password:



I have also tried in firefox internet explorer entering
\\Squeezeboxtouch\media-sdb1

into the address bar but I get problem loading the page.


I have double checked that SSH is enabled and sharing the device is enabled on the touch.


I am probably being an idiot somewhere, but where am I going wrong?


Cheers

[woodnut]

Further to my last message I have connected to mysqueezebox.com and can see the player connected. I have also changed some settings via the server settings (player tab).

I have also been able to view third party patches and have installed the locked 100% volume patch I was after.

I still though, cannot see the SB Touch from my laptop when looking at the network and I cannot SSH into the touch as posted above.




Cheers

[iPhone]

Two questions: Do you have SSH checked as On on the Touch? Did you go in under Root?