Network Drives

Any chance you will be implementing support for networked drives.
Now we have to store all the movies local and that can run into the hundreds of GB storage?

kinda a waist for having terabytes of media storage's

You can map network drive in Windows and mount it in OS X. What special support for network drive do you need?

Yep already have done that works with all my other applications yet airvideo puts a big red cross on its and is not accesible

Okay, can you be little bit more specific here? What operating system do you use? How did you map the network drive? Where exactly does Air Video put the big red cross? Do you have all permissions required to read the drive?

Thanks.

Operating sys is Win Vista
Red cross over the mapped drive when you want to select the folder with the movies
Yep all permissions are in place as all my other applications have no problem

ok sorry did not log in before---
if you would allow small pics to be uploaded i can show you

I've enabled attachments.

Also I've just tried playing a video on a shared SMB drive on Vista. Worked without any problems for me. The drive wasn't even mounted, just a regular SMB share. Any chance that your other applications accessing the shared drives are running with elevated permissions?

Here is the pic

None of my apps have been set to any special permissions and they have no problems its only air-video till now

Thanks

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Does this also happen if you map the shared drive? (I.e. as Z: ). Also are you able to browse the share drives using Windows Explorer without the Explorer asking for credentials?

Nope this only happens happens in Air Video nothing else
My explorer has no problems
My streaming apps have no problem
My ftp Apps have no problem

All of this can access the drives without asking for anything

;-0

The thing is: Air Video Server uses system component to display the directory listing. There's nothing special or specific to Air Video Server going on. Adding network drives was tested on Windows XP and Windos Vista and it workes without any problems.

Still, couple of things you can try:

1. Map network drive. In the screenshot the network drive is not mapped. If you map it it will behave just like a regular disk drive. This might help.

2. Use drag & drop from Windows Explorer to add the network drive instead of the "Add Disk Folder" button.

3. Run Air Video Server as Administrator. See if the problem goes away if Air Video Server gains additional permissions.

How do I mount my NAS?

Are you on windows or mac?

My Windows 7 also shows crosses though network drives HOWEVER it does not prevent me from selecting them for sharing.

As for sharing NAS drives....JUST MAKE SURE U MAP THEM

If the drives are mapped you can simply select them as per usual selecting drives/folders to share in air video server.

I have tested the sharing and stream of mapped drives on other PC's and NAS device...all confirmed working

BTW amazing App....just bought it...rather impressed!

Admin wrote:Are you on windows or mac?

I am using Win XP Pro.