Andrew L.Weekes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I thought I'd try out 6.5 tonight, and instead of messing with my > main Linux server box, I installed it under XP on the desktop > machine. > > The music folders are a Samba share on the linux box, mapped to drive > M on the XP box, so setting the music folder as M:/FLAC and the > Playlist folder as M:/Playlists which always worked fine on previous > versions should work. > > Unfortunately the server throws up the following: - > > NEW VALUE FOR PLAYLISTS FOLDER REJECTED: > OOPS - \"M:\PLAYLISTS\" DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A VALID DIRECTORY. TRY > AGAIN. > > NEW VALUE FOR MUSIC FOLDER REJECTED: > OOPS - \"M:\FLAC\" DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A VALID DIRECTORY. TRY AGAIN. > > Any ideas as to what's going on? The paths are valid, and work from > Explorer. > > Failing the above can I just install 6.5b1 in a different folder on > the Linux box and just switch between the two servers so I can leave > the stable install alone? > > Andy.
I have a feeling that this is caused by SlimServer running as a service. It runs as a different user, and hence doesn't see any of the mapped network drives which exist for your as a user. Try giving it an absolute path instead, e.g. \\SERVER\SHARE\FLAC Chris _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
