Mapping Network Locations

[Dease]

The functionality I'm looking for is very simple, I want the whole unraid server to have *one* drive letter assigned to it- the best I can do now is mapping to, say, \\tower\movies; \\tower\tv; and so on...

"TOWER" shows up in "network" but mapping to \\tower doesn't work.

 

Any way to acheive what I'm looking for? (OS=win7)

[purko]

The functionality I'm looking for is very simple, I want the whole unraid server to have *one* drive letter assigned to it- the best I can do now is mapping to, say, \\tower\movies; \\tower\tv; and so on...

"TOWER" shows up in "network" but mapping to \\tower doesn't work.

\\tower  is a server.

\\tower\movies  is a share on that server.

You don't map servers as disks, you map shares as disks.

 

[prostuff1]

The functionality I'm looking for is very simple, I want the whole unraid server to have *one* drive letter assigned to it- the best I can do now is mapping to, say, \\tower\movies; \\tower\tv; and so on...

"TOWER" shows up in "network" but mapping to \\tower doesn't work.

 

Any way to acheive what I'm looking for? (OS=win7)

 

If you make only one folder at the root of the drives in the unRAID server (call it "tower") and then put the "movies" and "tv" folders inside that then you should be able to map to \\tower\tower.

[Dease]

If you make only one folder at the root of the drives in the unRAID server (call it "tower") and then put the "movies" and "tv" folders inside that then you should be able to map to \\tower\tower.

If I did this I'd effectively lose 'split level' control, which I think I can live with. Are there any other drawbacks of this approach?

[BRiT]

If you're using Vista or Windows 7, use mount points, junction points, or symlinks. Network shares do NOT need to have drive letters.

 

In windows 7, I use mklink to setup my networked symlinks. eg:

 

mklink /D TV \\Reaver\Media\TV

 

c:\Mount>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 8424-51F7

Directory of c:\Mount

12/18/2009  04:52 AM    <DIR>          .
12/18/2009  04:52 AM    <DIR>          ..
12/18/2009  04:51 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Anime [\\Reaver\Media\Anime]
12/18/2009  04:52 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Backups [\\Reaver\Backups]
12/18/2009  04:52 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Emulators [\\Reaver\Emulators]
12/18/2009  04:52 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Import [\\Reaver\Queue\import]
12/18/2009  04:50 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Media [\\Reaver\Media]
12/18/2009  04:51 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Music [\\Reaver\Music]
12/18/2009  04:50 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Queue [\\Reaver\Queue]
12/18/2009  01:31 AM    <JUNCTION>     SmartDisc [\??\Volume{7267e7ee-eb9c-11de-a685-806e6f6e6963}\]
12/18/2009  01:30 AM    <JUNCTION>     SmartMedia [\??\Volume{7267e7ed-eb9c-11de-a685-806e6f6e6963}\]
12/18/2009  04:50 AM    <SYMLINKD>     TV [\\Reaver\Media\TV]
12/18/2009  04:52 AM    <SYMLINKD>     Win7 [\\Reaver\Windows7]
              0 File(s)              0 bytes
             13 Dir(s)  109,780,824,064 bytes free

 

 

[barrygordon]

IN Win 7:

 

If I look at the "Tower" in my network places I see 5 shares just as I should. The workgroup for the unraid system (Tower) is the same as that of every computer in my home. I see flash, disk1, disk2, disk3, and scratch.  Scratch is a 16 G flash drive plugged into the MoBo. disk1, 2, and 3 are the array and flash is obvious. If I Open (single click) any one of these "folders" I see just what I expect as a windows user.  

 

I did nothing special at all to make this happen. I run a flat network (one subnet) in my house with no firewalls or encryption.  I rely on the router for protection. Wi Fi in the house is handled special and is used only by the user held controllers. The controllers all use TCP over WiFi and do not use IR.

 

I store all my movies, one per folder, on a disk.  The name of the folder is the name of the movie.  The folder looks just like a BR disk or a DVD and only contains the main movie and associated chapters, subtitling and sound track.  I only select one sound track when I rip.

 

 

 

On my player (Dune):

 

There is a network browser that acts just like Windows Explorer.  It has some configurable features for the GUI.  I have told it not to show the Browser Icon, but rather just the next level shares, the top level of each disk.  If the name of a share, folder, or file starts with a period it is not shown. If I click on a disk share  It shows me all of the movies (Folders) on that disk in alpha order.  I have selected no cover art to be shown, just titles. If I navigate to a movie and click play on the controller it plays that movie.  If I click okay it opens the movie folder.  I always click play.

[Dease]

I looked into symlinks and they definitely look like a good solution. The problem I ran into was when I had created a symlink to a share (say tower\tv) all the subfolders in 'tv' were read-only (folders all had little locks on them). Is there any way to avoid this?

 

I've implemented prostuff's suggestion and its working well, though it'd easy to switch the upper directory structure again if the symlinks are figured out.