I have Volumio 2 running on a Raspberry Pi 3 and it’s working fine. I have a USB powered external hard drive attached with my hi-res music on it . All works fine.
What I’d like to be able to do is add new music to the hard drive on the raspberry pi without having to unattach it, plug it into my mac and copy across and remove and reattach to Raspberry pi.
The easiest way appears to be to mount the drives onto my Mac and drag and drop new music files. I can see the Volumio computer in networked devices but when I try and mount it it asks for a username and password. I have tried using the default ones: username: volumio; password: volumio but it doesn’t work. I have also tried the username and password I have selected for my hotspot - doesn’t work either.
Can anyone give me some idea what the (default?) username and password might be to allow me to do this or offer me another solution?
Should it work right out of the box? I installed the latest version and cannot access my USB stick via smb from mac; I can see it but accessing the usb drive is refused due to insufficient rights.
I edited some config files in an older version of volume to achieve this, but this was a bit complicated.
Hi Thanks - I was able to mount the USB disk on to hard drive this way. However I can not drag and drop anything on to the hard drive. It asks for a username and password to do this and when I put that in I get:
“Items can’t be copied to “Lossless” because you don’t have permission to read them.”
I can drag files off the drive to my desktop - just not the other way!
Hi I can mount the USB drive now - thanks but I am also getting insufficient privileges when I try and drop a file on to it (it’s ok dragging a file off to the desktop though). It also asks for my Mac username and password just prior to attempting to copy the file across.
I have tried formatting the disk to different formats - Mac OS Extended Journalled, ExFat and Fat 64 and no joy. I have also tried changing the permissions of the disk on my mac and through SSH when connected in Volumio.
Take a drive, plug into mac and erase and format as Mac OS Extended (Non-Journaled (important)).
Mount new drive on mac directly.
Click/highlight drive on desktop
Go to Finder>File>Get Info (command i)
Change sharing and permissions: all must read Read & Write particularly Everyone.
Unmount drive
Plug into Volumio machine and voila
Dominic- Thank you for posting this! I only wish I had found it sooner. Would have saved many hours of poking around in Linux ( unfamiliar territory to me but now I know a little bit more.)
I can confirm that you DO need to format the USB drive as macos unjournaled. I used extFS for Mac as you recommended. Without this I could see my drive and sub-directories but I could not manipulate the files remotely from my mac. During my research I found that a mac cannot do chmode remotely on a FAT or exFAT formatted drive.
Aside from that I followed your description with two exceptions.
I had to do a restart after the chown command before I could continue.
And I used
sudo chmode -R ugo+w /media/volumename
after everything else in order to have write privileges on the sub-directories. The “-R” makes it recursive so it filters all the way down. Without that I could write to the drive but not into the sub-directory (folders).
Now I can manage everything remotely through the mac including placing newly ripped music into the collections I wish.
Thanks again!
Steve
Let me know how you get on with it. I’ve found it stops working after a reboot or software update (not sure) and then you have to reconnect direct to mac and follow “Go to Finder>File>Get Info (command i)
Change sharing and permissions: all must read Read & Write particularly Everyone.
Unmount drive
Plug into Volumio machine and voila”
again.
Hey - I just discovered syncthing and it solves this problem perfectly. It was really easy to install on both my Mac and the pi and just keeps everything up to date without having to do anything.
