Expanding your Pogoplug

So you have a Pogoplug and you want some more functionality but you do not want to ‘brick’ it or loose the file sharing across the internet part? Well PlugApps is the answer for you on this one and for the people who thought this article was me ripping my pogoplug apart and adding hardware to it – sorry, not just yet people

Allowing SSH to work

If you head off to My Pogoplug page – click on settings (top menu bar) and then Security settings on the left pane. You show see a tick box in the middle with Enable SSH access for this Pogoplug enabled device – tick that and now we can get access to the device.

Using Putty if you are on Windows (the mac has ssh built in) and you now need to find your IP address of your Pogoplug. On my router it had a page which shows IP allocations and I noticed one that was blank, after trail and error I did manage to SSH in and we had lift off (command prompt in fact).

Installing the plugapps part

I followed THIS guide, I did use a 2GIG USB Stick to start off with but did swap (and repeat the process) for a 60GIG drive, I could then use the rest of the space to store files you see. This is a safe thing to do, if you unplug the drive and reboot the pogo plug, it reverts back to the stock firmware and boots as normal and be aware it wipes the drive you use for this mod.

First off – Install Samba

I started off by following THIS guide but never got the shares to work. I then made a new smb.conf file below and this now works:

[global]

workgroup = LIQUIDSILVER

server string = Pogoplug Samba2 Server

hosts allow = 192.168.0.  127.

null passwords = yes

guest account = root

log file = /opt/var/log/samba/log.%m

max log size = 50

security = share

encrypt passwords = no

smb passwd file = /opt/etc/samba/smbpasswd

dns proxy = no

preserve case = yes

[60GIG]

comment = 60GIG USB

path = /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1

available = yes

public = yes

writable = yes

printable = no

create mask = 0777

guest ok = yes

browseable = yes