Before buying - Sheevaplug with Squeezeserver - Newbie

[Wuffer]

Hi,

I was about to invest in a small NAS when I discovered the Sheevaplug.

I have a couple of questions I hope you guys can help with  

1. Does it have an easy to use interface?
2. If I buy a Sheevaplug with Debian (Squeezeserver) will it be plug and play with Squeezebox Duet?
3. If i connect a 2.5 USB HDD with the Sheevaplug, will it be easy to transfer all my music to the Sheevaplug HDD?

I have never used Linux, so it needs to be fairly easy to configure and use.

Hope you guys go easy on me  

[peter a]

1 - The SheevaPlug is a Development Kit, you can change the operating system, and installing any software which is needed.
 But by default there are no nice frontends installed , it`s up to you to install that.
The most popular user interface which you can install after is webmin , which allows you to easy ? ( easy maybe not , but via a gui ) and set up services like apache , ssh , samba etc.
2 – no idea   
3 - If i connect a 2.5 USB HDD --- the hard-drive doesn`t want to be self powered , the shevaplug as problems powering 2.5 usb hdds , you need a powered hub
Will it be easy to transfer – yes , with winscp !!! , pick the file you want to copy on the left of the screen and where to copy on the right , click copy and wait .

I have never used Linux, so it needs to be fairly easy to configure and use. YES and NO , that depends on you

If you don’t want to spend the time configuring a plug , you should go for something like the tonido_plug  http://www.tonidoplug.com/tonido_plug.html

[NewIT_Marcus]

Hi,

I was about to invest in a small NAS when I discovered the Sheevaplug.

I have a couple of questions I hope you guys can help with  

1. Does it have an easy to use interface?

If you class yourself as a beginner, the answer is probably no. At some point you would have to use a command line interface. Unless you are used to using the command line under (say) DOS, it might take a bit of getting used to. (But it's not difficult).

2. If I buy a Sheevaplug with Debian (Squeezeserver) will it be plug and play with Squeezebox Duet?

A Duet is a standalone Squeezebox player, right? If so, the answer is yes; you can install Squeezebox server very easily:

Code:

wget http://downloads.slimdevices.com/SqueezeboxServer_v7.5.1/squeezeboxserver_7.5.1_all.deb
dpkg -i squeezeboxserver_7.5.1_all.deb

3. If i connect a 2.5 USB HDD with the Sheevaplug, will it be easy to transfer all my music to the Sheevaplug HDD?

The Sheevaplug doesn't have a hard drive as such; it has a small amount of internal storage. Better to plug in an external hhd permanently. The only issue there is that you might have to install a package so that your (e.g.) NTFS drive can be read. Again:

Code:

apt-get install ntfs-3g

I have never used Linux, so it needs to be fairly easy to configure and use.

Hope you guys go easy on me  

If you are willing to learn, and the idea of learning sounds like fun, there is much to enjoy. If you aren't willing to learn, and see the configuration as a chore, well, maybe the answer is different.

[Wuffer]

Hi again,

Thanks for the quick answer 

In the god old DOS days i played a little with command lines (turning on/off sound, mouse etc. to get enough memory  ), but never played with Linux.

Im very willing to play around/learn about Linux - so I guess Ill give the plug a try.

Ill be back with a shi..... of questions when it arrives.

Regards
Kasper

[truehl]

Kasper:
Please take a look here: http://squeezeplug.de

Greetings, Thomas