thanks for that, i will give that a read and respond if need be. I have found a solution for the NAS mount. If I add uid=pi option to the end of the mount command it allows me to access the directories and files as pi user. (mount -t cifs //192.168.0.x/share /mnt/nas -o username=user,password=passwo...

I have set up 2 mount points on my pi 1 to a 32gb usb pen drive ( mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb ) and 1 to my nas ( mount -t cifs //192.168.0.x/share /mnt/nas -o username=user,password=password ) The mounts are carried out by script called from the rc.local file that is run as soon as the pi powers on th...

A quick question for you all.

Has anyone setup a bi-colour led to run directly off 2 gpio pins, with a current limiting resister in line.

Eg
Pin x high, Pin y low, colour A
Pin x low, Pin y high, colour B

Pin x low, Pin y low, colour off

Can the pi sink enough current?

I am setting up a lap environment and have an issue with the way the dns is going to be set up. The pi already runs an apache server and dnsmasq to issue the dhcp and possibly the dns. What I want to happen is when a person connects there device onto the network it picks up a dhcp address and dns se...

Hi, Is the a way of finding out what driver i am using for my wifi dongle. I've used LSUSB to identify the device, but i need the driver name so i can set up hostapd, i have several wifi adapters of several makes to try, so would be handy to be able to quickly identify which driver is being used. Th...