Write access on attached USB drives

[Trollpferd]

Hi all,

first of all: thank you for your work in RuneAudio. So far, for me, this is the best Player I have seen - and I really tried a lot.
I was wondering how I am able to access my Raspberry Pi 2, or, to be more precisely, the harddisk attached via one of the USB ports.
So far, from my Windows Network, I do only have read access to the hard disk.
Would be great to have write access as well in order to update my music folders via the network.
Perhaps this is an easy Linux thing - but I am not used to Linux at all ...

Thank you for any hint ...

Kind regards, Trollpferd

[hondagx35]

[Trollpferd]

Hi Frank,

many thanks for this cmprehensive answer! Indeed the reason was the FAT32 formatting of the HD. Now, with NTFS I am able to update the HD contents.
What I haven't understood: "dev mode has to be turned on (x.x.x.x/dev)"
Where is this folder "dev"? I can't see a folder with this name within my Pi folders.
And, by standard, on a freshly installed SD card, is this dev(elovers') mode by default switched to "on" or to "off"?

Another question: Is there an easy way to exclude others in my network to update the Music Folders?
I'd like to hinder others from accidental changes (e.g. via the Windows Explorer's Drag'n'Drop).

Finally: on a Windows System, which Software would you recommend to edit .conf files (e.g. Notepad doesn't Show the line breaks)?

Thanks again, Trollpferd

[hondagx35]

[thedman!]

[djpyle]