Announce: piCorePlayer 8.0.0

[slartibartfast]

Sorry for writing absolute nonsense in above quoted post. I really have no idea how this post came about.
However, I seem to have no luck with all tweaks whatsoever. PCP can access the files just fine and play them, W10 displays the share in its explorer but I cannot access it no matter how I try. This looks like the end of my Squeezebox experience.

Where does Windows 10 display the share? On my system (not pCP but Raspbian) the usb drive attached to the Pi doesn't appear under network, I had to map a drive manually.

[Man in a van]

I don't use pCP for LMS and I now don't use a raspberry pi, but here goes nothing.

I installed the raspberrypi Bullseye 32 bit desktop on a rpi4b.

I plugged in a 500gb usd disk called Music (I used the Desktop OS because it automounts any connected usb disks)

I used this guide to install SAMBA

I deviated from the guide a little; I did not set up a samba_dir as I intended to use the usb disk for this

This is my sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

[sambashare]
path = /media/pi/Music
writeable=Yes
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no

And this is the pathway from my Windows 10 Pro Desktop



My suggestion, is to run the LMS on this OS

ronnie

Edit:

It appears that one still has to run

sudo chmod -R 775 /media

[kidstypike]

I don't get how some users are having difficulty with this.

I've just set up a spare pi.

pCP 8.1
Mounted a USB stick
Installed SAMBA
pCP Tweaks page - set hostname to pCPspare.

Shows up under "Network" on my Win10 PC.

Entered user=tc, password=piCore in SAMBA. Can see contents & write to the USB stick.

Not the slightest problem.

[Man in a van]

I don't get how some users are having difficulty with this.

Well I agree, but it does remain so.

The folders can be seen but reached.

I tried enabling

SMB 1.0/CIFS File Shairing Support

But that was the same, seen but not reachable.

But it is possible to put SAMBA on a rpi OS and connect.

I would not waste time with repeated failure but move on to something that does work

ronnie

[streifenleopard]

I don't get how some users are having difficulty with this.

Well, if I understood what the difficulties were I could at least set out to solve them. But I just don't know where to start. I activated SMBV1 and deactivated it again, I changed passwords back and forth, I connected directly to the RPI4 and I connected through "connect network location with other information".

[streifenleopard]

Where does Windows 10 display the share? On my system (not pCP but Raspbian) the usb drive attached to the Pi doesn't appear under network, I had to map a drive manually.

Well I had connected the drive manually in Windows 10. It appears right under "This PC" as a network drive in very much the same way that drives from a NAS would.

[streifenleopard]

I don't use pCP for LMS and I now don't use a raspberry pi, but here goes nothing.
I installed the raspberrypi Bullseye 32 bit desktop on a rpi4b.

So this would be a Debian installation on your RPI4?

[paul-]

Samba on pCP does not allow for SMB1 by default, so enabling that in windows does nothing. But SMB has alot of security holes, Windows in some cases disables some of these methods.
Insecure logins and also authentication methods sometimes are locked down. If you machine is controlled by a domain controller (typically a work computer) then it can get locked down further.

At this point I would use WinSCP. It's nearly as easy as file manager.

[streifenleopard]

I suggestion starting over with a new pCP set up at the beginning by downloading the pCP.zip file and creating a new image on the SD card.

I will try this with a new sdcard I still have. As soon as I get round to working on it, too much work right now... Either this or I'll try with Debian.
(BTW there is no possibility to multi-quote here?)

[streifenleopard]

At this point I would use WinSCP. It's nearly as easy as file manager.

Thing is I have MusicBee set up as a music organiser on my PC that connects to a network share.

[Redrum]

(BTW there is no possibility to multi-quote here?)

I believe you click the quotes of all you would like to include, then click post reply upper left

Jim

[kidstypike]

Thing is I have MusicBee set up as a music organiser on my PC that connects to a network share.

I think we're all assuming you want to transfer music files from your Windows PC to your Raspberry Pi?

WinSCP will do this, it's just like File Explorer. but with 2 panes.

Pic below shows left pane files/folders on a USB drive connected to my PC. Right pane shows files/folders on a USB drive connected to my Raspberry Pi.

[shicoy]

Hello mates. Someone know howto can install minidlna on picore?

[Man in a van]

So this would be a Debian installation on your RPI4?

It's
Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software

from

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

ronnie

[Man in a van]

So, another day, another challenge

I thought to review my procedure; I made a new pCP install, expanded the FS and added the additional files but still did not install LMS



I installed SAMBA, user tc, passwd piCore

[global]
netbios name = Music
workgroup = WORKGROUP
log file = /var/log/%m.log
max log size = 1000
local master = no
security = user
map to guest = bad user
dns proxy = no
load printers = no
[Music]
path = /mnt/Music
create mask = 0664
browseable = yes
writeable = yes

One thing I did differently was to make sure I was on the "Player/Server" tab at the page bottom

And it all worked



Who'd have thunk it ?

ronnie