Can someone explain what the ShareISO option is for?

It seems to have a prominent spot in unMenu and I'm wondering if I'm missing out on something useful.

I use it when I rip me iso on the unraid server whit handbrake  it mount you iso file on the shere

I rip my movies to ISO and store them in a folder on my unRaid server. I then use my media player to play the ISO directly from the Movies share on the server, no need to mount it.

 

So what you are saying is you have a movie ISO already on your server. You then mount it using Share ISO and it appears on the network as the files contained within the ISO so you can rip parts out using Handbrake?

 

Would this act as a replacement for a virtual DVD drive?

For instance, I just bought a game DVD and backed it up to an ISO on the server.

Is it possible to ShareISO the game and install it on a Windows laptop that doesn't have a DVD drive?

 

I use Virtual CloneDrive to provide that function now. If ShareISO does the same thing from a network share instead of using a virtual drive I'll definitely use it instead.

I'm glad this came up. I've seen that option a few times and never really knew what it was for. My wife has a netbook and normally I just share a drive on my desktop PC so she can install things. Slow, but it works.

I rip my movies to ISO and store them in a folder on my unRaid server. I then use my media player to play the ISO directly from the Movies share on the server, no need to mount it.

 

So what you are saying is you have a movie ISO already on your server. You then mount it using Share ISO and it appears on the network as the files contained within the ISO so you can rip parts out using Handbrake?

 

Would this act as a replacement for a virtual DVD drive?

For instance, I just bought a game DVD and backed it up to an ISO on the server.

Is it possible to ShareISO the game and install it on a Windows laptop that doesn't have a DVD drive?

 

I use Virtual CloneDrive to provide that function now. If ShareISO does the same thing from a network share instead of using a virtual drive I'll definitely use it instead.

I have not try whit game iso or program only  movies and yes I also kust play me iso on my PCH but I rip som to  stream to my ipad from my tonido plug when im not home

I just did some testing and it appears to work as I described above.

 

After using ShareISO to mount a DVD game ISO that is stored on my unRaid it appeared as a network share.

I was able to install the game on a laptop that doesn't have a DVD drive. The downside is the copy protection needs the disk in the drive to play. That's not a big deal for me. This was just to test and I have no intention of playing on my laptop anyway.

 

At any rate this is really useful and I'll be switching over from my Virtual CloneDrive software to ShareISO.

 

There were a couple of issues:

 

Filenames that include ()'s can't be mounted using ShareISO. This is a problem for me as all my movies have the year tacked on to the movie name. i.e. Avatar (2009).iso

Without the () it mounts just fine. It only affects the actual filename, the pathname can include ()'s.

 

While regular DVD ISO's could be mounted, Blu-Ray ISO's could not be mounted. The only way I can play my BR's is to mount them in Virtual CloneDrive and play them with PowerDVD. I don't have that many BR's and mounting them all via ShareISO would have been a nice way to avoid a step.

 

You have a URL for ShareISO. I keep finding a warez site and honestly I don't trust those sites to much.

You have a URL for ShareISO. I keep finding a warez site and honestly I don't trust those sites to much.

it a part of unmenu

Right, it's part of unMenu.

 

Once you install unMenu on your unRaid server you will find the option called ShareISO available in the top menu. Just click the link and navigate your unRaid folders to find the ISO you want to have appear as a share. After the ISO is mounted, open your network shares and it will show the entire contents of the ISO instead of just a single ISO file.

Right, it's part of unMenu.

 

Once you install unMenu on your unRaid server you will find the option called ShareISO available in the top menu. Just click the link and navigate your unRaid folders to find the ISO you want to have appear as a share. After the ISO is mounted, open your network shares and it will show the entire contents of the ISO instead of just a single ISO file.

Don't forget that you will need to un-mount the shared ISO files before you can stop the unRAID server. 

 

If you press the "Stop" button before unmounting the ISO you'll see "Unmounting" on the management console as it waits for the disk with the ISO file to become idle.  It will not be idle until you un-mount the ISO.  The management console will wait almost forever. ("almost"' because it is filling your syslog with messages and eventually will end up crashing you server when it runs out of memory for additional log entries.  It might take hours or even days if you have a lot or RAM, but it will eventually crash)

Right, it's part of unMenu.

 

Once you install unMenu on your unRaid server you will find the option called ShareISO available in the top menu. Just click the link and navigate your unRaid folders to find the ISO you want to have appear as a share. After the ISO is mounted, open your network shares and it will show the entire contents of the ISO instead of just a single ISO file.

 

I've done that and with two different ISO's and when I look in them there is nothing but folders. Basically no files at all. I wonder if I'm missing a Permission some where.

1st attempt was a movie

2nd attempt was an ISO of an Os I made a long time ago so I could reburn it if/when I lost the Disk. Sure enough I did. LOL

Right, it's part of unMenu.

 

Once you install unMenu on your unRaid server you will find the option called ShareISO available in the top menu. Just click the link and navigate your unRaid folders to find the ISO you want to have appear as a share. After the ISO is mounted, open your network shares and it will show the entire contents of the ISO instead of just a single ISO file.

 

I've done that and with two different ISO's and when I look in them there is nothing but folders. Basically no files at all. I wonder if I'm missing a Permission some where.

1st attempt was a movie

2nd attempt was an ISO of an Os I made a long time ago so I could reburn it if/when I lost the Disk. Sure enough I did. LOL

Enable the display of hidden and system files.  I think you'll see that the VIDEO_TS folder in a shared DVD ISO does have files.