Done some reading up and have an update.
I figured the NAS I have doesn't officially support SBS, its a fairly light weight, lower powered designed compared to the LS-WXL which Mr Iceman has. Looking at the officially supported NAS devices such as the Netgear ReadyNas, they are more powerful, large devices better suited to running the SBS. So figure I have the following options:
- try and install the SBS on my NAS using the instructions I pointed to. This should work but (a) my NAS is not that powerful so performance may be slow and (b) the latest version of the SBS software is not supported. Also (c) it may not work and I could end up bricking my NAS
- I could use the existing external harddrive (Seagate 750Gb) plugged into the rear of the SB Touch. However many people seem to have problems using external drives, the Touch is very fussy about which drives it will work with, doesn't like non-music files, takes ages to scan the drive, doesn't work too well with Album art etc.
- Purchase another, more expensive but supported NAS which will support the SBS. Expensive and I don't need a 2nd NAS.
- use one of my old PCs (of which I have many ranging from a 486/66Mhz to Pentium II/AMD systems), install Debian Linux that I am familiar with, then download and install the Debian SBS package.
- use my laptop as the SBS.
I'm quite tempted to have a play with an old PC running debian, downside is that I wont want to leave it on full time and will need to find somewhere to put it (hallway, kitchen may be) and use Denovo like plug to get a wired network connection to it (more expense)
Ho Hum, and I thought this would be easy, may be should have bought the SONOS which will work with DLNA!