Bugzilla – Bug 10934
WHS wizard should use UNC paths
Last modified: 2009-10-05 14:33:25 UTC
The setup wizard when running on Windows Home Server should offer UNC paths for both the Music folder and Playlist folder. Perhaps a better and easier solution would be to have the setup wizard default to \\localhost\music for the music or don't offer the option of a music folder at all during the setup wizard and just use \\localhost\music.
I definitely wanted to add detection of the WHS' music folder to SC. But why would you want to use the UNC instead of "absolute" paths? Re-targeting: Dean wanted WHS to be a 7.4 feature. Only in 7.3.x to give it some thorough testing.
(In reply to comment #1) > But why would you want to use the UNC instead of "absolute" paths? From the Windows Home Server Technical Brief - Drive Extender: Important If you want to access files in shared folders, always access them through the shared folder name (\\server\SharedFolderName or \\localhost\SharedFolderName). If you browse the file system through administrator's desktop, you will discover multiple places where you might think your data is stored, but your data is likely stored elsewhere. Accessing \\server\SharedFolderName or \\localhost\SharedFolderName from the administrator’s desktop ensures that you will find your file without a performance issue. I also wanted to point out that the Music share appears to be standard: Predefined Shared Folders Your home server is preconfigured with shared folders named Photos, Music, Videos, Public, and Software. The document is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=40C6C9CC-B85F-45FE-8C5C-F103C894A5E2&displaylang=en
Thanks Steven, great information! I've found one more reason to not use the local path: from the user's point of view, eg. when creating playlists etc., he's using the UNC path too. Might lead to less duplicate files... > Predefined Shared Folders > Your home server is preconfigured with shared folders named Photos, Music, > Videos, Public, and Software. I'm just not sure they're not localized in other languages. In the code I added today I'm not only looking at the share's name itself, but at the local path too. This is very likely always English, but only published (shared) using a localized name. Oh, did I say "the code I added today"? Remembers me this bug should be fixed in change 24856
This bug has been marked as fixed in the 7.4.0 release version of SqueezeBox Server! * SqueezeCenter: 28672 * Squeezebox 2 and 3: 130 * Transporter: 80 * Receiver: 65 * Boom: 50 * Controller: 7790 * Radio: 7790 Please see the Release Notes for all the details: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Release_Notes If you haven't already, please download and install the new version from http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/support/download-squeezebox-server.html If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.