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

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