Done and dusted. Have my cheap web cam (6 euro) up and running with network access all thanks to this forum the link is http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18314. This gave me the solution I needed. Next step is to save my videos to Google Drive or Dropbox. Thanks to all replies. ChrisCr

Hi I'm trying to set-up a Wifi Rpi B with a webcam as a remote station and send the resulting snapshots to my home network (Ubuntu 14.04) with Samba, can anybody point me in the right direction, I searched the net but nothing definitive yet . I can ssh onto the Rpi, and ping to and from, I suspect t...