squeeze server via a laptop.

[icehockeyboy]

Think you need to connect your drive to the network, not through the Touch, or it will take forever to do anything.

The drive has USB but the router only has Ethernet sockets.......

[Stratmangler]

The drive has USB but the router only has Ethernet sockets.......

Connect it to the laptop

[Ali Tait]

Connect it to the laptop and find it on the network. Maybe look at getting a NAS so you can connect it to the router.

[icehockeyboy]

Connect it to the laptop and find it on the network. Maybe look at getting a NAS so you can connect it to the router.

Will do, but that means a bit of a task involving shifting a few bits of kit, so if we might take this up again tomorrow evening?

I did have a NAS, but it was for the Windows system a few model changes ago.

[Ali Tait]

Yep no worries.

[icehockeyboy]

Thanks!

[icehockeyboy]

Just a quickie as I'm at work, when I attach the HD to the lappy will I need to have the laptop always powered up whenever I use the Touch?

[UV101]

If the SB can't see a server, it will try to connect to the Internet via your SB account for Internet radio etc.

You'll need to re attach it to your local server (in this case laptop) in order to see your local files on the HDD

[icehockeyboy]

Thanks Ian.

[NRG]

Enable wake on LAN for the network port u r using on the laptop. Set the port to be able to wake this machine up. Then u can set the power options for the PC to sleep it after a period of inactivity. The WOL packet will be sent from the touch when it's powered on bringing the server out of sleep mode.