Installing/using with Buffalo LinkStation NAS

[Sam6644]

I have a Buffalo LinkStation NAS drive installed at my home, plugged
into my router.

I store a catalog of photos on this drive and access it via FTP to
send and retrieve files from my laptop when I need them on the go.

I came across ResourceSpace and it looks like a perfect solution to me
for improving the way I can access my files at home.


What I'm wondering is if I can install ResourceSpace on my LinkStation
and access it from outside of my home like I currently do. Is there a
simple way to do this install or will I have to do other things on the
drive first?

Any help I can be pointed to will be much appreciated. I'm a
photographer and not a programmer/engineer so hopefully this isn't
very complicated, haha.

Thank you.

[Tomas Hajek]

While I have not tried this or done it, but resource space uses a mysql database, and web server as well as many command line utilities (imagemagick, ffmpeg, openoffice, etc) to do the job I probably would not recommend it.  I think it was possible to get debian linux to run on some versions of the Buffalo LinkStation NAS but there really isn't that much memory or cpu in it to do much with resource space.  I have a LinkStation as well but it is currently turned off as I replaced it with a small form factor linux box which can run resource space.  You might be able to setup another linux box and mount the link station remotely to the linux box and run resource space using some syncing from the NAS to resource space but I don't know that trying to use the linkstation for it would yield anything but frustration. 

That does not even cover the part about accessing away from home.  I currently do this with my linux server at home by registering a domain name and utilizing zone edit for dynamic dns.  I've hacked together a number of scripts that update the dynamic dns when my IP at home changes so it's up most of the time.
regards,
 -Tomas

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[Dan Huby]

FreeLink looks like a route:

http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php?title=Category:FreeLink

You can then use apt-get to install the necessary packages just as for
any Ubuntu/Debian distro. Well, at least, in theory...

http://wiki.resourcespace.org/index.php/Installation#Installing_on_Ubuntu_Linux_.2F_Debian_Linux

The two big hurdles here as Tomas says are memory and CPU. The memory
issue you could probably get around by setting up a swap partition,
but it would be slow. ResourceSpace doesn't use a lot of memory, but
ImageMagick will when scaling large images, so memory usage depends on
the types of files you plan to handle.

Unless your own time is free (or you are doing this as a personal
project for fun), you'd be much better off buying a small PC enclosure
and running Linux on it.

Dan