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Use attached device as a NAS
« on: August 16, 2014, 10:19:29 am »
I would like to plug an external hard drive into the Almond+ and use it as a NAS. It needs to be accessible from all the machines on my network (a mix of Windows and Linux). I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this. Could someone help me out with a brief tutorial?

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2014, 10:36:30 am »
I'll put something together and post it in the Wiki next week.
Note that Samba support is still quite basic, but we're working on improving it.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2014, 11:27:18 pm »
I followed the steps in the wiki and created the share, but I can't move any files there, it tells me I don't have permission. I verified that "read+write" is selected. I even changed it to "read", saved it, then changed it back. I'm stumped.

I have a 2TB WD Mybook attached to the A+. Formatted it NTFS and then connected it to the router directly after.

EDIT: When I map the share, I see "usb" and "usbs". The second one seems to be for the bitorrent client, and I can create files in the three folders in usbs\sda1\transmission\. The other folder under share, which is "usb" has a subfolder called "My Book". I can't create anything under the "usb" folder.
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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2014, 12:42:02 am »
Apparently I had already written a guide  ;D :P
http://wiki.securifi.com/index.php?title=Network_storage_-_Almond%2B_2014

Yeah, we still have a few issues we're working on resolving, but we'll get this working properly.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2014, 10:06:05 pm »
Apparently I had already written a guide  ;D :P
http://wiki.securifi.com/index.php?title=Network_storage_-_Almond%2B_2014

Yeah, we still have a few issues we're working on resolving, but we'll get this working properly.

I should have mentioned I followed that wiki precisely, still no luck.
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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2014, 09:47:48 pm »
I was able to set mine up using the directions provided...

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2014, 09:07:10 am »
I have a 2TB WD Mybook attached to the A+. Formatted it NTFS and then connected it to the router directly after.

I suspect that you are having one of the concerns I have as well.  NTFS is not supported at this time.  If you can reformat it, I might suggest trying ext3.  Mine has lots of data that I can not back up at the moment to reformat it.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2014, 09:28:31 am »
NTFS is very much supported as the Almond+ ships with a 3rd part NTFS driver.
The issue is Samba, not NTFS support. We're working on getting this fixed.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2014, 07:14:51 pm »
Took the USB drive out of the Almond, formatted it, and plugged it back in to the A+, works fine now. Weird. Before though I didn't see the Recycle Bin and System Volume Information folders.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2014, 09:15:14 pm »
Do we have a solution for Mac compatible formats? I have followed instructions for setting up FTP, Samba, and my drive, connected via USB and formatted for FATex, is not recognized. I am looking to troubleshoot.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2014, 05:09:32 am »
If all goes well we'll have a fix in the next firmware release for Mac's.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2014, 05:36:08 pm »
HEllo,
I have 3tb Toshiba hdd. Connect the router, and format ext4 is ok.
Transmission Torrent client send a message to me after start downloading : error: not a directory (/dev/sda/torrentname)

What could be the problem?

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2014, 07:25:00 pm »
Hi ttamas,

Currently Almond+ only supports Ext 3, FAT32 and NTFS formatted drives and for more information, please go to http://wiki.securifi.com/index.php?title=Network_storage_-_Almond%2B_2014.

Best Regards,
Ashok Kumar,
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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2014, 10:42:15 pm »
We're working on fixing ext4 support, but it might not be done in time for the next firmware.

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Re: Use attached device as a NAS
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2014, 01:52:00 pm »
NTFS is very much supported as the Almond+ ships with a 3rd part NTFS driver.
The issue is Samba, not NTFS support. We're working on getting this fixed.

I was running into the same problem on an NTFS partitioned drive...  ended up doing a chown almondplus <root of USB drive> -R and it seems to have cleared up. 

 

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