On 30/07/17 15:55, michael norman wrote:
Reading your posts one thing strikes me, is what exactly does your router/that box actually do? in particular does Freebox OS support Unix/Linux file permisssions or does it not ? Does it mount drives properly or not ? etc etc. What it seems to me is that you need to put the problems raised here to whatever support system is available for that device.
That sort of info is patchy. In some instances, I think it's a case of 'yes, the router technically does this or that but you have to abide by its sometimes esoteric conventions.' I haven't found all the actual technical specifications for the router. There's some quite comprehensive help available on the FreeboxOS system including a developer API, but not so much in the way of details that might give easy answers to a problem like my own. I've found some forums and newsgroups for the French ISP but they're pretty low-traffic, the former especially, and questions posed over the last year or so regarding hard disk problems have often gone unanswered or have no useful answers. Nonetheless, I'm going to try asking on the newsgroup.
If it was me I'd first fix the permissions for whatever files you have on the HDD, and make sure that it/they work on at least one Linux box, ignoring the router for now which seems to me to be the source of your problems. At least until you can find out what it is designed to do.
Everything's fine on the PC side. I'm trying to make the progression to a better setup that isn't reliant on any one PC. That's where this thread stems from. I've already tried re-plugging the drive back into the PCs directly, and things work fine there. The permissions for the music directory are as per my regular user ownership and permissions, and don't pose a problem. The awkward caveat is that I must disconnect it depending on which PC I'm using (one is for general usage, the other oriented towards my music creation, but I don't want to have to always have both on, nor continually plug and unplug the USB cable). gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org