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I am currently working on NAS/remote server support. Support for a remote windows server is already working. For Windows servers, the file paths in the DB are stored using the drive letter the files are on. For ACC to access the album art files on the remote Windows drive it needs to have the proper credentials. So for windows I implemented that a temporary drive mapping is made to the $ share of the drive where the path in the DB is pointing to. I did this because these shares are always available. They do require a local admin username password. For a NAS device however the DB path is stored like //<servername>/<folder>/... I myself haven't any expierence with mapping to a NAS device. What I would like to implement is a solution that does not require any input (besides username password) from the user. Therefor i prefer not to let the user map a drive first and use that to connect. It woudl require external pre-requirements to be met and that is not preferred. Question; Is there a always, on every NAS device, available share which I can use to create a temporary mapping just for the use that authentication has been made against the NAS device? A bit like c$ is an always, default created, share for windows. Don't know if there is any such thing for NAS devices....? If this is not the case i'm afraid I have to use a drive mapping and do some replacing (i.e. //server/folder/mymusic is mapped to drive X: using sharename \\server\music). For ACC to find the album art files ACC would have to replace the internal DB path references (//server/folder/mymusic/artist/album/cover.jpg) to (X:\artist\album\cover.jpg). I just can't figure out how to implement that. For this I need a drive letter, the mapped share name and the fysical directory path. Point is there doesn't have to be any relation between the share name and the directory path. So my problem would be, what do I need to replace with what in such a case? Any ideas on this one? <- Again not the preferred solution though. Frank -- SilverRS8 Author of -'AlbumCatalogCreator' (http://www.vanholt.nl/acc/acc.htm)- for SqueezeCenter & SlimServer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SilverRS8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41597 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
