I was trying to "map" (called window libraries) my documents folder to a folder in unraid but I get the error "network location can't be included because its not indexed."  The way around it is to "offline the folder but its not what i want to do. 

 

Anyway around it?

There are ways such as you described, but know way to actually add it as a library with out indexing it, and that would require you to bring a copy over to  your local hard drive defeating the purpose of the server in the first place. For the life of me I can't remember what I did, but that was over a year ago.

http://zornsoftware.talsit.info/blog/win7-library-tool.html

 

Try this. I added all my unraid network drives with it.  Another thing M$ really screwed up why would we not want to option to index the network folders we access all the time

Another but more complicated to get around it is using NTFS SYMLINKS in Windows 7 and by having at least 1 level of directories between the symlink target and the files you want included in the Win7 Library.

 

The "C:\Mount\" is a normal directory where I created the symlinks at.

Symlinks on NTFS only have to be created once. They are persistent. I created them once from an administrator level command prompt with "mklink". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link ]

 

c:
mkdir c:\Mount
cd c:\Mount
mklink /D EBooks \\Tower\EBooks
mklink /D Movies \\Tower\Movies

 

From a Windows 7 file explorer, if I navigate to "C:\Mount\<SYMLINK>\" and then select in the right hand panel of file explorer the "<SubDirectory>" I am able to right-click and select "Include in Library" and have it function.

 

"C:\Mount\EBooks" target is the unRAID share "\\Tower\EBooks".

For my Win7 "Books" library I have "Technical" added from "C:\Mount\EBooks".

The structure on the unRAID side is "\\Tower\EBooks\Technical\[book name]".

I navigate in file explorer to "C:\Mount\EBooks", in the right hand panel select "Technical", right click and select "Include in Library", then select my already created library "Books".

 

"C:\Mount\Movies" target is the unRAID share "\\Tower\Movies".

For my Win7 "Videos" library I have "Movies" added from "C:\Mount\Movies".

The structure on the unRAID side is "\\Tower\Movies\Movies\[480p|720p|1080p]\[MovieName]".

I navigate in file explorer to "C:\Mount\Movies", in the right hand panel select "Movies", right click and select "Include in Library", then select my already created library "Videos".