{"id":234,"date":"2010-07-06T18:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-08-20T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T14:02:36","slug":"seagate-freeagent-dockstar-network-adapter-without-pogoplug-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Seagate FreeAgent DockStar Network Adapter Without PogoPlug Service!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/06\/how-to-use-the-seagate-dockstar-on-a-lan-without-pogoplug\/\">Matt Burns<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/06\/how-to-use-the-seagate-dockstar-on-a-lan-without-pogoplug\/\">Crunchgear<\/a> and the instructions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/06\/how-to-use-the-seagate-dockstar-on-a-lan-without-pogoplug\/\">he<\/a> <a title=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/06\/how-to-use-the-seagate-dockstar-on-a-lan-without-pogoplug\/\" href=\"http:\/\/\">pointe<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/06\/how-to-use-the-seagate-dockstar-on-a-lan-without-pogoplug\/\">d<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/05\/06\/how-to-use-the-seagate-dockstar-on-a-lan-without-pogoplug\/\">out<\/a>, you can use this as a home network server for windows without signing up with pogoplug or installing any software. <strong>But why would you not want the pogoplug service? They stated several times they will offer everyone life-time memberships for free. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 <\/strong>Anyway, here are Matt&#8217;s instructions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Plug your USB drive into your computer, format it (or if it&#8217;s already filled with data, don&#8217;t format it!)<\/li>\n<li>Create a file on it named .ceid  Using notepad, or your favorite text editor.<\/li>\n<li>Put these lines in the file (replacing yoursharename with a name of your own choosing). <em>Note the mode=rw allows reading and writing. <\/em><em>servicename=yoursharename<br \/>\nxcode.metadata=never<br \/>\nxcode.thumbnail=never<br \/>\nxcode.stream=never<br \/>\n<\/em><em>c<\/em><em>ifs.mode=rw<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Plug the usb drive into the Dockstar, and you\u2019re all set.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The drive will be available as \\\\fadsMMMMMM\\yoursharename (where MMMMMM are the last 6 letters and numbers of the Dockstar\u2019s mac address, which is on the label on the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, the FreeAgent DockStar is awesome. \u00a0I&#8217;ve used it so much already, with the pogoplug service, and have 3 drives with (several terrabytes) hooked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use this as a home network server for windows without signing up with pogoplug or installing any software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}