raydawson
Established Member
I'd like to clear up this area of USB drive identification as my experience differs from those of debitcardmayhem, and I'd like to avoid any confusion.
What I have found is that:
The first USB drive to be plugged in, regardless of whether it's the front or rear USB port becomes sda1. A second drive that is plugged in afterwards becomes sdb1.
Do you really mean the first USB drive to be plugged in, or do you mean the first USB socket to be used?
I updated using a memory stick via the front USB socket, so presume the socket became sdb1. Later, plugging a USB hard drive into the front socket, I presume it should still show as sda1 as the same USB socket is used.
I have never used the back USB socket.
My smb.conf already has the block:
[USB]
comment = USB Drive
path = /media/sda1
public = yes
writable = yes
browsable = yes
create mask = 0640
directory mask = 0755
hide dot files = no
so, I don't see why it shouldn't work. I have tried mapping the drive as \\Foxsat-HDR\sda1 but Windows 7 says it can't be found. FTP and http DO however find it.
I suspect I'm not writing the correct text in when I try and map the drive in Windows.
Cheers,
Ray D