DarkKnight Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Not possible AFAIK. The alternative is to set up a vdisk image on an array drive and mount it to the VM. It will give you access to space on the protected array, but I don't know of a way to simultaneously share files in unraid and mount them as a local drive. Quote Link to comment
dmacias Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 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: Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 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. 3 2 Quote Link to comment
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