Share/Drive appear as local drive in Windows VM


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I have an application that only recognizes local drives. I'm looking to get an unraid share to look like a native drive (e.g. D:\) within the windows VM. Is this possible? Mapped drives will not work.

 

I checked the FAQ, but didn't see anything mentioned.

No, you can only do that in a linux vm. You'll have to look at mounting a network drive as local inside your windows vm to fool your app. Have you tried just mapping the network drive to drive letter like z:

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I have an application that only recognizes local drives. I'm looking to get an unraid share to look like a native drive (e.g. D:\) within the windows VM. Is this possible? Mapped drives will not work.

 

I checked the FAQ, but didn't see anything mentioned.

Try this

 

From a windows command prompt (run as administrator)

 

mklink /d "c:\WhateverFolderYouWantItCalled" "\\unRaidServer\unRaidShareName"

 

Your share will wind up being mounted within that folder on an existing windows drive

 

Should be close enough to what you need.

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