How to get Twonky to read USB Drive attached to my NAS.

[thompsjc]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I'm fairly new to this. I have a My Book World Edition 1TB NAS drive and have a attached via USB a second 1TB My Book Essential drive. I have successfully streamed content via Twonky to my PS3, but it can only see the NAS drive content, not the additional USB drive. Is there anyway of configuring Twonky to see content on both drives? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Scoutx66]

Hi! I have exactly the same problem. Does anyone have a solution?

[DaemonBeetle]

The simple answer is to add the path as you did for the NAS drive content. Where you'll find it depends on the OS you're using.

[Scoutx66]

Hi! Thanks for the answer. The problem is that on the My Book World twonkys contentbase is set to /DataVolume/Public. So you cannot add the path to the USB drive without changing the contentbase. But if you add a symbolic link to the USB share somewhere under /DataVolume/Public you can select the USB path inside the twonkey config webpage and it is working! To do this you first need to enable SSH, then login and use the command ln -s (for me: ln /shares/usb1-1share1/Filme/ videosOnUSB -s) to create the links. The result is this:
/DataVolume/Public/Shared Videos # ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan 2 02:27 videosOnUSB -> /shares/usb1-1share1/Filme/

[PeeBee]

You need to set the followlinks parameter to get it to follow links.

If you search for followlinks I explained to someone else how to set that parameter recently.

PB

[thompsjc]

Hi - I managed to change Twonky's ini file so the contentbase allowed me to see other connected USB drives. Trouble is although Twonky can see my additional content on my USB drive, the PS3 can't. Did you find using your method (symbolic link) the PS3 can see/play these files?