O2 Joggler Forum

May seem a silly question, but I have a usb harddrive of mp3s attached to the Joggler. Can I update it and manage it wirelessly from my pc without actually connecting direct to the usb cable?

Cheers...

you can use vnc to view the joggler desktop remotely, or login via ssh shell and do stuff. You can also share the drive on the network of course.

Hi Buzz,
Thanks, I sort of suspected that would be the case!
I did try setting it up in windows my network places but without success. Will try again!
David

I do today with both Linux and Wintel boxes. Works nice. The quick way as BuZz mentions is using VNC with file transfer. Fastest for say HD movies 4.8Gb to 15Gb is using a wired Gb link. For music though as the files are so small; wirelessly transferring them is really quick. W7 behaves a bit differently than XP stuff; so you have to make amends a bit. Do a quick google search and you will see what it is you have to do to get W7 working in the legacy wintel share modes. I do it today with my NMT media player (running on embedded Linux) and Wintel NAS / Wintel sharing.

Not sure I understood all of that pete!

I got acces in winscp but found that the mnt usb drive was 'read only'

Any thoughts why?

I didn't get any further making it a network drive either.

I have windows xp

David

Hi Jarv,

How do you want to access ya mp3s ? form an Windows or Linux PC ?

You can mount your USB-drive as a samba- (smb) or nfs-share with all rights you want -> read only or r/w.
Or you can connect via ssh with tools like winSCP or Putty (for Terminal), but it's not sooo fast, if you would move GBytes.
And note, for write-access in WinSCP you need a root-account on the joggler, and 'root' does official not
exists in ubuntu, IMHO cause of some security aspects, but it's easy to create an account 'root' ...

I'm using samba on my homenet (with a seagate dockstar + usb-drives, it's like a lan-harddrive)

I hope, i could help you

Greets, Tommes

Hi Tommes,

I have the joggler running the stock o2 software. It has a seperately powered harddrive connected by usb.
The joggler has squeeze server from plugnpimp plus squeezeplay from birdslikewires (roobarb's version).
At the moment I need to connect directly to the harddrive to update the mp3s on it. I wanted to know if I could stay sat on the sofa and transfer them wirelessly!

Hi Tommes

I'm using xubuntu. I can access my windows 7 laptop via my joggler by going accessories - file manager - network - windows network - etc etc... although it doesn't usually work unless i reboot the joggler AFTER my windows pc is on

but i cannot find my joggler from my windows pc....

so i have been able to copy a file from my joggler to my windows pc... but i haven't been able to do the reverse... can you recommend a quick and easy way to get samba sharing found by windows 7 and also my ps3 would be great too (i've had problems with ps3media server and the like on an eee-pc - it worked once and then never again!)

if you know off hand then i would appreciate it!

James

to share drives (with windows) on linux you need to install samba. check https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/servergui ... erver.html for a start

.....so I have Samba and I have Winscp, I can log in (log-in=letmeinssh, pass=joggler1234) and copy from joggler to pc but usb drive on Joggler mnt is still read-only....

Where am I going wrong? is it to do with the root account mentioned by Tommes?

Wish I knew more about the nuts and bolts of this!

Jarv_77 wrote:.....so I have Samba and I have Winscp, I can log in (log-in=letmeinssh, pass=joggler1234) and copy from joggler to pc but usb drive on Joggler mnt is still read-only....

Where am I going wrong? is it to do with the root account mentioned by Tommes?

Wish I knew more about the nuts and bolts of this!

Anything plugged in to the USB port is mounted read-only by default on the native OS. You'd need to log in over ssh, unmount the stick and remount it as read-write