Gross Matthew - zguy

The virtual Linux machine under windows should be ok, while not tested to my knowledge.

For the proper setup of collections, you have to put files in a web space anyway. It is ok to have files on a USB key, providing the web server (e.g., Apache) knows how to access this space on specific URL. If you know how to manage .htaccess files, this is quite easy. If not, the best way to go is to place all files below the directory used by the web server.

For example, if this web directory is mapped at /var/httpd/htdocs/, this is the place that the server will look at for web references like http://server_name/. Create a sub-directory videos below htdocs and upload your files there. Then configure a collection with path /var/httpd/htdocs/videos and web prefix http://server_name/videos. The first parameter is used by YACS to handle content of the collection. The second parameter is used to allow web access to individual files of the collection.