How to view network shares as one Drive/many folders?

Gruelius · **24th January 2007, 04:01 AM**

Hey everyone
Basically i have a 1TB server with 5 200GB Disks all seperate (backed up onto DVD dont worry

)

Anyhoo in MCE from the My Videos section i see:
"\\Fileserver\Filedisk One\"
"\\Fileserver\Filedisk Two\"
So on so forth

I would ideally like it to be:
"Family Guy"
"viva la bam"
"wild boys"
"lost"
e.t.c

IS IT POSSIBLE! in vista or MCE

philzgr8 · **24th January 2007, 06:01 AM**

If you set up the shares correctly on the file server you should at least get close. I don't think you will get rid of the server name though. It would probably look something like below on XP:

Family Guy on Fileserver (G: )
viva la bam on Fileserver (H: )
wild boys on Fileserver (I: )
lost on Fileserver (J: )
etc...

Gruelius · **24th January 2007, 06:29 AM**

Ok so if i share the individual folders it wont come up with the path first? Schweet

Will have a go at this brb.

bella · **24th January 2007, 12:01 PM**

In my setup with mce1 as main server it shows as follows on mce 2 and mce 3.

//Mediacentre main > C:/Recorded TV (or the name you choose it to be)
G:/Recorded TV ( Idem above)
E:/Movies

Gruelius · **24th January 2007, 03:47 PM**

so they all have //mediacentre main/ before it?

Im just trying to get rid of this.

I might just make a folder.jpg image to make it easier for me.

bella · **24th January 2007, 04:16 PM**

No, //MCE main is indicating which machine it is, all the drives on that rig show up as E,G:/whatever you want to name your drive.

My other 2 rigs show up on the server as //MCE2 and //MCE 3 and their individual drives with their specific names.

Gruelius · **25th January 2007, 11:04 AM**

so can you get rid of the name? thats my original point lol im sick of //FILESERV... showing up for all the shares. Can you change the original view to list then the following views to blocks then again to lists like you could in meedio/myhtpc?

Cheers

pantonious · **25th January 2007, 04:39 PM**

Maybe if you map each drive separately, MAYBE you can change the volume name on it, then go ADD DRIVE/FOLDER ON THIS COMPUTER in MCE...

gibbo9000 · **25th January 2007, 05:12 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by pantonious

Maybe if you map each drive separately

This approach does fix the problem - and I used it for a while. The downside is that MCE gets very flakey when it thinks there should be a drive there but can't access it (as happens if it is off-line for some reason). Then it refuses to find them when they are there etc. . .

I don't know why, but it is a lot more sensitive to a missing mapped drive than a missing shared drive.

Gibbo

Gruelius · **25th January 2007, 05:51 PM**

Mapping discs works great however you have to bugger around with a script to bring the disks online, like i cbf going into my computer then clicking on the drive to connect it.