NAS Manager
The NAS Manager allows to mount NAS (Network-attached storage). All parameters collected during the configuration process will be saved in the configuration file /home/pi/Peppy/nas/nas.txt.
WARNING The password will be saved in the configuration file in a plain text format. Please make sure that you provide proper access rights to the file /home/pi/Peppy/nas/nas.txt.
Multiple disks can be configured and mounted. During startup the player will mount all configured disks automatically. Each NAS can be also unmounted and removed manually.
To start NAS configuration go to the Web Configuration UI and select the menu item System/NAS Manager.
Click on the ADD NAS button to begin the configuration.
Provide the following parameters for all required fields:
- Name - this is the user-defined name of the NAS. It will be used as a folder name during mounting process.
- IP Address - this is IP Address of the NAS or machine where disk is located.
- Folder - this is folder of the NAS which will be mounted.
- Filesystem - the filesystem of the NAS, for example cifs for Windows.
- Username - the NAS username.
- Password - the NAS password.
- Mount Options - the optional mount parameters. It's automatically populated for the cifs filesystem.
Click Mount button to mount the configured NAS. The NAS will be mounted to the mount point defined in the property Disk Mount/Mount Point (/home/pi/music by default).
Here is example of the configuration for the folder located in the Windows machine:
The NAS can be unmounted by clicking on the Unmount button. To remove the NAS from the configuration click on the Delete button.