I spent quite a bit of time attempting this so now that I have it working, I thought I would share for anyone else. 1. The Setup My router is hidden away and not near a screen. Connecting my RPi direct to the router is not convenient. I would still like network (and internet access occasionally) so ...

thelini, Just to add some detail to bredman's answer. All the steps to mount a external drive are run in a command line (however this can be done once x is started by using a "terminal emulator" - LXTerminal in LXDE): 1. Find out the name of the device. To do use the command " sudo fd...