Pogoplug v2 (Pinky) - Revert to Pogoplug / Uninstall ArchLin

[r4esh]

Hey,
So I'm very new to this stuff, but I was trying to find a way for itunes to detect my pogoplug usb drives as a music / media server and thus I followed the guide to install ArchLinux on my Pogoplug v2 (pinky). I didn't realize I would lose some my.pogoplug.com functionality and the pogoplug software to show the drives on my desktop.
I can't seem to find a simple straight-forward "uninstall / restore to original setup guide". Can someone help me out here? The closest thing I found was http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=897&p=5222&hilit=reinstall+pogoplug#p5222
I know there is a lot you CAN do with ArchLinux, but its a little beyond me right now and now I've lost the ability to connect / see my drives at all (theres more I need to do after installing archlinux right?). I'm kind of giving up on the idea for now and just hoping to get things about to the way they were out of box. Thanks for your help.

[r4esh]

For anyone who finds this I found some more info:
With the ArchLinux USB detached you need to run " hbmgr.sh " by:

/etc/init.d/hbmgr.sh start

Then someone else suggested enabling " hbmgr.sh " to run at startup by editing: " /etc/init.d/rcS " <--- anyone have some info on this / how to do this?

[Socaltom]

if you are just looking to see the drives on your desktop, samba is the better option. follow the guide to install it, create a share with samba , then map a network drive with windows . itunes should be able to find it easily then.

i also recommed installing webmin, its got a niceweb interface to setup the sambasharing.
Tom

[TheWalt]

Unless something has changed, if you boot the Pogoplug without any USB plugged in it should boot to the standard OS.

[r4esh]

Hey, I understand this much better and that Archlinux is on the USB drive and not actually the pogoplug itself. Ultimately I've lost the drive showing up on my desktop or MyPogoplug.com

I tried your suggestion and installed Samba & Webmin. I'm picking up on everything a little.

I am on mac. I went to network. And I saw "alarm" there (default archlinux name?) I tried connecting as root & guest user and couldn't see my drive. I could only see "archlinuxARM" or something like that.

In webmin I was able to see my External USB HDD drive's location ( /media/hd-sdb2 ) and added it to " /etc/samba/smb.conf " for path. Note I have my ArchLinux USB stick in position 2 and the external HDD plugged in under it in the back of the pogoplug. I followed the guide as far as Samba user creation, etc as well. After I added "/media/hd-sdb2" to path under "/etc/samba/smb.conf" I ran the system upgrade in "pacman" and then did the "Reboot" from webmin and after it started up I can't see my harddrive in Webmin OR anything.

I still can't find / see the network drive.

Suggestions?

[r4esh]

I restarted samba "rc.d restart samba" - This got "alarm" to come back in my network places and "archlinuxARM" drive comes up, but nothing else.

On webmin I can see under "Partitions on Local Disks" my drive is at "SCSI device A : WD My Book 1130" But I can't see it under "Disk and Network Filesystems" so I'm guessing I need to add it? How do I do this?

Kinda stuck here.

[moonman]

Did you follow the guide to setup samba here? http://archlinuxarm.org/support/guides/ ... ions/samba
Then, in the config file in the section below:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[ArchLinuxARM]
path = /media/mnt_sdx1/
read only = no
public = yes
writable = yes
force user = root')

replace the path with your path:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[ArchLinuxARM]
path =/media/hd-sdb2
read only = no
public = yes
writable = yes
force user = root')

*ArchLinuxARM can be changed to any name you want. It was used in the guide as an example. That explains why you can only see that name and nothing else.

for simplicity you may do this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[AllStorage]
path =/media
read only = no
public = yes
writable = yes
force user = root')
This will share the whole media folder so any storage device attached to the plug will be under AllStorage

Also, you must have missed this in the guide:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')o start Samba on boot, edit /etc/rc.conf, scroll down to the end of the file and add "samba" to the list of DAEMONS.