Sharing iPod over Samba?

[jcroft]

Has anyone tried sharing their Mac-formatted iPod over Samba so that it can be accessed on Windows PCs?

I plan to try this (I'm a bit of a Unix geek), but haven't gotten to it yet. Anyone have any tips or experiences to share?

Thanks,

Jeff

[jcroft]

I went ahead and tried it. Works beautifully. If you want to share your ipod over Samba, just add an entry like this into /etc/smb.conf:


[ipod]
comment = iPod
path = /Volumes/iPod
browseable = yes
read only = no
create mode = 0750


All of my music files are AACs (.m4a or .m4p), and I don't have a PC player than can play them. I assume, though, if you use .mp3, WinAmp or similar would have no problem playing htem off the SMB-shared iPod.

Jeff

[Mosvca]

I'm running two computers at home, 1 PC (XP Pro) 1 mac (Jag).

Easiest way to get files from iPod to PC ie: MP3's is to simply mount the PC's shared folder, ie: '/shared on your Jag desktop and drag and drop from, the iTunes music lib to teh shared drive.

[jcroft]

Originally posted by Mosvca
I'm running two computers at home, 1 PC (XP Pro) 1 mac (Jag).

Easiest way to get files from iPod to PC ie: MP3's is to simply mount the PC's shared folder, ie: '/shared on your Jag desktop and drag and drop from, the iTunes music lib to teh shared drive.

That works great if your goal is to get files from the iPod to the PC. Mine was to mount the iPod on the PC so that I could use files on the iPod in programs on my PC. I don't want to copy them OFF the iPod -- I want to use them in programs while they reside on the iPod.

For example, I wanted to be able to open Word on the PC, and open/edit/save/etc the Word docs on my iPod. Similarly, I wanted to be able to open Photoshop on the PC, and open/edit/save images on the iPod.

For this, the iPod must be mounted on the PC -- samba is the only way I know of to mount a Mac-formatted iPod on a PC, without a poduct like MacOpener.

[Mosvca]

gotcha.