Making the central even more useful on the network

Well, it only took me buying a house and getting it wired with CAT 5, but I finally have my Rio Central up. As it happens, I'm now trying to upgrade my server's operating system. I want to backup about 20Gb of data. I was thinking that since I have about 35 gigs of (currently) empty network storage, it would be a great place for a temporary backup device during upgrade. It would also help for getting the mp3s off the device if I ever want to later.

I'd like to get telnet and one or more services running on the Rio Central probably in the following order of preference:
Samba
FTP
nfs

Who's got some good info on getting started? I've seen scant info on hacking the Central. Obviously due to the quite smaller user base. I have a keyboard attached right now and have already dropped into the shell.

How similar is it to putting a full distribution on the empeg car? Any tips would be appreciated. I'm not a Linux guru, but I know enough to be dangerous.

How cool would it be to have a Hijack type kernel for this device?

Chris

Actually, after a little more poking around, I did find and ftp client, so that'll do for now. Still, it would be cool to start collecting some hacking info on this device.

Chris

How similar is it to putting a full distribution on the empeg car?

Just the same, except easier because the root partition is 128Mb instead of 32.

Peter

As it turns out, the ftp client didn't work for me either. I issued the rw and rwm commands (thinking it'd be similar to the car player). I created a directory in /drive0 for the files I wanted to copy, connected to my server and started an mget and I got an error to the effect "couldn't create temporary file, oops".

Any ideas?

Chris

Not anything as silly as a missing /tmp directory ?

D'oh!

Was that a "D'oh, I wouldn't be that stupid" or a "D'oh how could I have been that stupid"

The latter, except it's more like, "D'oh, I'm quite unaware of how that ftp client works." More of my linux newbieness showing through. :-)

It started working much better when I created that directory. Of course, it seemed to have a problem copying files above about 120Mb. (This one I figured out for myself) I then created a tmp dir in /drive0 and ln -s'ed it to /tmp. Now I'm able to copy larger files.

It still seems to crap out though, it's weird. It seems to unbind it's ip address during the transfer of a large amount of data (many files, or several large files). I have to get out of the shell and get back in to get it to work again. If I break it down to smaller chunks, it seems to work okay.

Thanks,
Chris