Easiest way to access music files on ext. USB HDD over network?

[RikRokk]

Hi there!

Can anybody please kick me in the right direction on how to easily access music files on ext. USB HDD over network? Been looking for some SMB / Samba share thing but couldn't find it. I can't imagine that this is intended, must be somewhere.

[gerontosepp]

Hi there!

Can anybody please kick me in the right direction on how to easily access music files on ext. USB HDD over network? Been looking for some SMB / Samba share thing but couldn't find it. I can't imagine that this is intended, must be somewhere.

Hi RikRokk,

Configure / Library / Music source / CREATE

Here you can select between Samba, NFS and UPnP

Hope, this helped

Oliver

[RikRokk]

Configure / Library / Music source / CREATE

Hey Oliver,
this looks like the place to connect the RPi/moode with Music stored on a NAS etc. over network. What I've been looking for is the possibility to make a USB HDD (containing my music), which is directly connected to my moode-RPi accessible via the RPi for other machines in the network.

Got an idea on that?

[TheOldPresbyope]

Configure / Library / Music source / CREATE

Hey Oliver,
this looks like the place to connect the RPi/moode with Music stored on a NAS etc. over network. What I've been looking for is the possibility to make a USB HDD (containing my music), which is directly connected to my moode-RPi accessible via the RPi for other machines in the network.

Got an idea on that?

@RikRokk

So I'm guessing you haven't actually looked at your "Network neighborhood" lately. Out of the box, a moOde player offers publishes the following SMB shares: NAS, Playlists, Radio, SDCard, and USB storage units you've added. You should be able to reach them from any SMB-capable host on your LAN. They are "owned" by user pi with the usual password.

Regards,
Kent

[gerontosepp]

Configure / Library / Music source / CREATE

Hey Oliver,
this looks like the place to connect the RPi/moode with Music stored on a NAS etc. over network. What I've been looking for is the possibility to make a USB HDD (containing my music), which is directly connected to my moode-RPi accessible via the RPi for other machines in the network.

Got an idea on that?

Sorry, I misunderstood you question. As Kent already wrote, MoOde provides the attached usb drive ootb as a SMB share. He also wrote, the share is owned by the user pi, but on my Mac I'm not able to connect with the same user/password, I use for ssh. I can only connect as 'Guest', but this is fine, because I can add/delete all files on the share, so no problem for me.

Oliver

[TheOldPresbyope]

Oops. Oliver is correct. The shares are marked "guest ok = yes" in the samba configuration file. I was thinking of something else when I wrote about ownership. Sorry.

Regards,
Kent