Bitcasa on Readynas?

I will do this is two steps. The first step will be getting Bitcasa to run semi-headless where you will need to set up an ssh tunnel from another machine to start it. This will help in debugging any problems since I may have forgotten a step.

I assume you have ssh access to NAS.

Grab 'bitcasa_0.9.6.99_amd64.deb' from somewhere and put it on NAS :)

We need to install a few things first

apt-get update
apt-get install x-window-system
apt-get install xvfb
apt-get install liblog4cxx10 libprotobuf7 libqtgui4
dpkg -i bitcasa_0.9.6.99_amd64.deb

cp Xvfb /etc/init.d/
cp bitcasa /etc/init.d/
update-rc.d Xvfb defaults
update-rc.d bitcasa defaults

The Xvfb and bitcasa script refereed to are going to be in next post.

Once everything is installed, can test by ssh tunnel from another linux box, which will display Bitcasa control panel on that machine to set it up for the initial time and test its working.

Note that all the Bitcasa mounts will be set up in the home directory of the user you connect to. If you connect as root, they will be in '/root/Bitcasa'. I created a new user at first called bitcasa. Be sure you can log in a user first (you may need to edit '/etc/passwd' and choose shell '/bin/bash' if its set to 'bin/false' and be sure its pointed to correct home directory.

Also be sure user is in fuse group.

Line that begin with '#' are just comments.

ssh -X s

# Add user 'bitcasa' to fuse group
usermod -a -G fuse bitcasa

# Start Bitcasa
Bitcasa

Now just set up Bitcasa and test to make sure it works. I noticed you can not gracefully shutdown Bitcasa it seems so you will need to do something like 'ps ax | grep Bitcasa' to get pid and kill it like 'kill -9 pid'

Next post will contain scripts to have it start automatically.