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Thank you. I was following that guide but run into a few snags. On nano /etc/samba/smb.conf, what do I put on the path? How would I know what drives are connected on the Pogoplug? I want to plug in a couple of 1tb WD External Drive on it.

My external drives mount to /media/volumename. Use df to locate your mounts, then use that mount path in your samba configuration. I installed udevil, which automounts hot plugged usb drives to /media/<name of your drive>. So you can label your drive as "1TBWDEXT1" and it mounts to /media/1TBWDEXT1.

Okay, thank you. I'll report as soon as I try it tomorrow.

This might be a moronic question to you guys... what is the best format to be able to access on both (mostly) Mac and PC? I was going for NTFS but isn't that Windows only? The drives are currently formatted for the Mac. Thank you.

Perhaps this would help
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Post the drive setup and your questions and they shall be answered. Although from what I can see most questions have been answered in the previous 5 pages.

Just submitted a post on the Arch Linux Forums about this. I'll update once I figure it out.

http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/vie...=18&t=5080

10GB/22min = 10*1024 MB / 22 / 60sec = 7.75MB/sec. That's good enough for 1080p playback. I have listed several real time monitoring tools in my previous post. To accurately measure the file transfer speed you just need the correct file size and a good stop watch. Or you can try something like DUmeter on windows.

The only tricky thing about sabnzbd installation is the permissions. Make sure you have sabnzbd installed:
# pacman -Qs sabnzbd
if the info shows up as result then you already have sabnzbd installed.

If not, you have to get it from AUR (Arch User Repository). In this case installing a AUR package manager/broker will save some time (for now and in the long run) and I like yaourt. It's like other package managers such as yum, apt, emerge which can automatically search and install the required dependencies for the package you want to install.

Here is how to install yaourt:

Be sure that your system time is sync'ed with the time server pool otherwise the certificate may not be working when yaourt tries to use wget to get the stuff from https hosts. (I simply create a systemd script `ntpd -gq` so the system's time is always adjusted when it boots up - too lazy to use ntp client as a service or use cron).

yaourt install:
1. # pacman -Sy wget base-devel yajl ed
2. # wget https://aur.archlinux.org/package...ery.tar.gz
3. # tar zxvf package-query.tar.gz
4. # cd package-query
5. edit PKGBUILD and change arch type to "any"
6. # makepkg --asroot PKGBUILD
7. # pacman -U <package.xz>
7. # wget https://aur.archlinux.org/package...urt.tar.gz
8. # tar zxvf yaourt.tar.gz
9. # cd yaourt
10.# makepkg --asroot PKGBUILD
11.# pacman -U <package.xz>
Feel free to delete everything that was downloaded or created during the above steps after the software is up and running.

the steps also show how to install packages from the source by using PKGBUILD file. It's easier than compiling from the source (./configure; make; make install) and you have a package at the end so it makes removing the package cleaner and easier if you don't want it.

To install sabnzbd simply do
# yaourt -Sy sabnzbd
and follow the script's instruction to get it done.

The default sabnzbd base path is /opt/sabnzbd if you get it from AUR. Make sure /opt/sabnzbd and all the subdirectories is owned by the user you use to run sabnzbd. You can find that info in /usr/lib/systemd/system/sabnzbd.service, the location is where all the start/stop scripts used by systemd to control the software.

Use the following command to change the ownership of an entire folder and everything in it:
# chown -R nobody.nobody /opt/sabnzbd
//change the ownership to nobody user and nobody group

there may be other locations for sabnzbd files such as /etc/conf.d/ but in this case only /opt/sabnzbd needs attention (if I remember correctly). Sickberad is a whole different deal because it doesn't have a base directory so the files are all over the place.
To check all the files installed from a package:
# pacman (or yaourt) -Ql <package name> | less

After that you are all set, just start the service (# systemctl start sabnbzd) and go to the webpage (http://<IP>:8080/sabnzbd (the port number is listed in /opt/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini) and set all the configuration options before you start to have fun with it.

Performance note: pogo's 256MB ram obviously is not enough for lots of things, one of them is too many job queue in sabnzbd. They could be from sickbeard or other sources. We don't want to use too much drive space for cache either because of the flash drive short life cycle. You just have to test out the best settings for your own system.

Did you create a Swap space for sabnzbd? If not why?

Because it's running on a thumb drive and the performance and the flash write cycle limitation makes it unwise to treat swap place as extension of the physical memory.

I meant a swap on an external Hard drive you have connected to the Pogo. If not, do you have any problems with downloading files from 5-15gb in length with the Pogo and how fast can you download from the pogo.

Thanks for the info.