Welcome to my first post

[Flure]

And thank you for reading it.

Mt wife and I both have Macs and I have a Logitec Squeezebox radio. I have all of my music and films on an external hard drive that is normally always attached by USB to my Mac.

I have an old, unused Dell tower PC.

I think that I want to atach the PC by cable to our wireless router and move all of the files from the external PC onto it and use it as an "always on" server, so that both Macs and the Squeezebox can use the files.

Is it do-able, and what must I do to the PC to help make it happen?

Be gentle now.

[Flure]

Sorry, that should read "....all of the files from the external hard drive onto it..."

[kawakiri]

I'll let Chuck answer that one.

[mccfluff]

just thought i'd say hello, can't help but i'm sure someone will....

[moonraker558]

And its a hello from me.

[ChuckFickens]

Yep very doable. you would need to install the squeezebox server onto the dell computer, connect it to the router and give it a static IP address in the same range as your existing computers then setup squeezeserver to use the usb hard drive as it's music folder and set the squeezebox to look at the IP address of the dell for it's music.

For the mac to be able to see the drive you just need to share it on the network.

I personally have done it using a version of linux installed on the computer and then installing the squeezebox server, but it can work equally well running windows and the windows version of the server.

http://www.logitechsq...queezebox-server.html

[ChuckFickens]

I've really got to stop being so predictable! :)

[Mr Veritas]

Hello there Flure,
Welcome to the crazy,friendly and sometimes completely mystifying world that is AB.
I am bit of a technological dunce (well Iam 87) but I have lots of help from the whizzkids here.
So sit back and relax,and let AB take you away from it all,but you may never come back to reality! LOL