[Sussex] external hard drives - much confusion.

[John D.]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 23:17, Steven Dobson wrote:
> John
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> If you're comming to the BCF tomorrow then I would recommed that you get
> yourself a USB 2 PCI card - that will help a lot with the speed and be
> much easier than getting it set up as a NAS disk.
> Still, we can have a look tomorrow.
> Steve
Thanks to all who offered suggestions in how I might get this external HDD 
configured.

Especially to "Lord Dobson of LUG" :D who kindly plugged it in to one of the 
available laptops at the BCF and managed to access the devices browser based 
config page and put all the right stuff in the right boxes, enabling me to 
get it home and plug it in and access it straight away.

Brilliant, cheers Steve.

I'd tried all the suggestions in the user manual (even installing the software 
on my partners laptop to see if I could config it via W98SE) to no avail.

Setting "it" up, is easy if you know what you're doing, but it's not really a 
beginners device to use under linux.

Now all I have to do, is to see if I can get away with just using FTP to 
transfer my backups to it or whether I'll have to go through the drama of 
learning how to set up samba to do the same thing.

regards

John D.