05-21-2025, 04:55 PM
@Bogler
That 10-year old laptop (a ThinkPad whose keyboard I adore) mentioned in the 5-year old thread called out by @Snoil is now 15-years old. May it never die!
It still has a copy of Win10 Pro installed as a guest O/S installed in VirtualBox in Linux so I fired that up this morning. I am now sharing music directories from it to my moOde players in two different ways.
1) In my primary Win10 user account, I have shared a music directory "GuestMusic" to guest users with read-only access rights. On the moOde side, in the Remote NAS source creation panel, I manually entered the path (10.0.0.229/GuestMusic), the Userid "Guest", blank Password, and Name "Win10-GuestMusic". I got a green checkmark when I saved this, and the library update proceeded without a hitch. Success.
2) In a new, secondary user account I just created with username "TestAccount" and password <redacted>, I have shared a music directory "TestAccountMusic" with read-write access only to the account holder. On the moOde side, in the Remote NAS source creation panel, I manually entered the path (10.0.0.229/TestAccountMusic), the Userid "TestAccount", the actual user Password, and Name "Win10-TestAccountMusic". Again, I got a green checkmark when I saved this, yada yada yada.
Note: I could just as easily used the symbolic name of the guest host instead of the numeric IP address when defining the path. DIdn't want to muddy the waters with its name.
Note: I almost never fire up Win10 (or the Win11 Pro guest O/S which is also on my laptop). It's quite possible that the "insecure user login" setting was enabled in it five years ago. I just don't remember. I'll try to find time to look later today.
Note: I think Win10 (and Win11, for that matter) client systems make terrible servers for this purpose and in any case I don't want to have to leave a Windows-based laptop or desktop running just so I can play music. Over the years, I have used a variety of SBCs to host servers on my LAN. Currently, it's a Pi5 with an SSD on a PCIe HAT, running OpenMediaVault on Raspberry Pi OS Lite. I spin up other services on it as needed or out of curiosity.
YMMV.
Regards,
Kent
That 10-year old laptop (a ThinkPad whose keyboard I adore) mentioned in the 5-year old thread called out by @Snoil is now 15-years old. May it never die!
It still has a copy of Win10 Pro installed as a guest O/S installed in VirtualBox in Linux so I fired that up this morning. I am now sharing music directories from it to my moOde players in two different ways.
1) In my primary Win10 user account, I have shared a music directory "GuestMusic" to guest users with read-only access rights. On the moOde side, in the Remote NAS source creation panel, I manually entered the path (10.0.0.229/GuestMusic), the Userid "Guest", blank Password, and Name "Win10-GuestMusic". I got a green checkmark when I saved this, and the library update proceeded without a hitch. Success.
2) In a new, secondary user account I just created with username "TestAccount" and password <redacted>, I have shared a music directory "TestAccountMusic" with read-write access only to the account holder. On the moOde side, in the Remote NAS source creation panel, I manually entered the path (10.0.0.229/TestAccountMusic), the Userid "TestAccount", the actual user Password, and Name "Win10-TestAccountMusic". Again, I got a green checkmark when I saved this, yada yada yada.
Note: I could just as easily used the symbolic name of the guest host instead of the numeric IP address when defining the path. DIdn't want to muddy the waters with its name.
Note: I almost never fire up Win10 (or the Win11 Pro guest O/S which is also on my laptop). It's quite possible that the "insecure user login" setting was enabled in it five years ago. I just don't remember. I'll try to find time to look later today.
Note: I think Win10 (and Win11, for that matter) client systems make terrible servers for this purpose and in any case I don't want to have to leave a Windows-based laptop or desktop running just so I can play music. Over the years, I have used a variety of SBCs to host servers on my LAN. Currently, it's a Pi5 with an SSD on a PCIe HAT, running OpenMediaVault on Raspberry Pi OS Lite. I spin up other services on it as needed or out of curiosity.
YMMV.
Regards,
Kent
