Geek Alert!. Can the olive devices access a NAS

edsel6502 · « **on:** 5 Jun 2006, 09:45 pm »

I just want to use the Olive device as a frontend for ripping/playback.

My audio data will live on a NAS.
Any tried this?

Anyone also know what the file system is being used for the devices?.

Vinnie R. · « **Reply #1 on:** 5 Jun 2006, 09:52 pm »

Quote from: edsel6502

I just want to use the Olive device as a frontend for ripping/playback.

My audio data will live on a NAS.
Any tried this?

Anyone also know what the file system is being used for the devices?.

Hi edsel6502,

Welcome to Audiocircle!

As of now, the Olives cannot access a NAS, but I was told that they are always working on software updates and this is something that they will be working on.

For now, you can load all your music on an external USB hard drive and connect it to your Olive and play off of the USB drive...

Best regards,

mgalusha · « **Reply #2 on:** 5 Jun 2006, 11:08 pm »

If one were extremely geeky, one could enable the telnet daemon on the Olive, log in and I suspect enable the mounting of an SMB remote share on a NAS. I've not tried it but logging in via the shell the Olive looks very much like any other Linux box.... I know it presents itself via Samba, so I suspect one could reconfigure Samba. Hmm... may have to poke around in the OS a little and see.

ehart · « **Reply #3 on:** 6 Jun 2006, 01:37 am »

I'm sure you've thought about this -- have you considered the Squeezebox?

If I didn't want to record from vinyl, store data on the unit's own HD, and have a CD player in the unit for "one-off" playing (as opposed to ripping), I would certainly do the SB instead. sounds lik that might be your case.

tubesguy · « **Reply #4 on:** 21 Jun 2006, 04:37 pm »

edsel -

FAT32 for external devices, according to Olive. I can verify that NTFS drives are not recognized. - Pat

balu · « **Reply #5 on:** 21 Jun 2006, 06:12 pm »

Oh no

I've ripped more than 150GB into an NTFS drive and was planning to use it with a modded Olive that I just got. I guess I'll have to go through the pain of copying all of that to another hard drive now. Is there an easier way?

mgalusha · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 Jun 2006, 07:38 pm »

balu,

Unfortunately you are stuck copying it from disk to disk and back. XP can convert from FAT32 to NTFS without a problem but it can't go the other way.

You may also have another problem. XP won't let you create and format a FAT32 partition greater than 32GB. It can read and write to them without a problem but it won't create/format them. It can be done however, as that's how may of the external USB disks are shipped.

Here is info on how this can be accomplished. http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

mike

Vinnie R. · « **Reply #7 on:** 21 Jun 2006, 08:00 pm »

Quote from: tubesguy

edsel -

FAT32 for external devices, according to Olive. I can verify that NTFS drives are not recognized. - Pat

All,

I've purchased two Seagate external USB drives (a 160GB and a 300GB) and just plugged them in right out of the box and they worked fine with the Olive. I wonder if they are configured in FAT32 right out of the box then?

mgalusha · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 Jun 2006, 08:10 pm »

Vinnie,

Most external USB drives (regardless of capactiy) are shipped with FAT32 so that they will work with most any OS. We've purchased quite a few and all have been that way.