Acer Revo XBMCLive Setup guide. *Still a Draft*

[Geko]

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Sharing your Revo attached drives to your Windows Network.
Manage your drives from your Windows PC. Delete, rename or change things with the system your more used too.

Spoiler:

1)
Installing Samba and sharing the Revo's attached USB drives back out to a Windows network. This it, although sounds involved, is relatively easy. Samba may already be installed on the Live CD, I cant remember.

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs

Once installed -

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Make sure near the top that your Workgroup is specified.

The end of the file add -

[Media]
path = /media
comment = Media
public = yes
only guest = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no

Any drives attached by USB get listed in your /media folder. This shares the lot out to Windows with full right permissions, if you want to change the it is involved and too advanced for me. If you wish to learn more about it. Be My Guest!

Does this effectively mean that if I download my NZB's to my REVO, I can easily transfer them to my NAS?

Although if I spent some time it'd probably be easier to set up the nzb downloading program on my NAS.... lol.

[DejaVu]

Does this effectively mean that if I download my NZB's to my REVO, I can easily transfer them to my NAS?

Although if I spent some time it'd probably be easier to set up the nzb downloading program on my NAS.... lol.

My bad. Did not read this til now.
That is exactly what this means. I manage my Revo from my Windows PC all the time. My Revo is hard to do anything with so I Telnet in using Putty (Linux Command Line) and use my Windows Computer to organise any completed downloads over the network.