Subsonic Forum

Hello!

I have two Windows 7 computers on the same network. What would be the easiest way to have SubSonic scan media directories across both computers?

(for instance, C:\Music on computer A, and C:\My Stuff\Tunes on computer B)

Simply share the two drives then each drive can be seen from either computer.

In addition to what G8DHE answered I would like to point out to you that you'd also have to make sure that the account that runs the Subsonic service has to have acces and appropriate privilieges to read and write to your shared folders.
You'd also have to take in account that both computers have to be powered on whenever you want to use Subsonic.
By copying all your music to one computer you would avoid all those issues.

Thanks for the help.

However, I'm getting a "folder not found" in Subsonic when I try to add the folder on the other computer.

Is there a proper format that Subsonic is expecting to use? I copy-pasted from the Windows Explorer location bar, so right now it's "\\COMPUTERNAME\t\Songs" (no colon after the "t", though that's the drive letter if I switch over to the other computer). I can access everything fine using that path on Windows Explorer.

Is there a different way I should be sharing the drive if I want it to be accessed by Subsonic? Or should I be formatting the location differently?

Subsonic does "understand" UNC-pathnames, so \\COMPUTERNAME\t\Songs should be ok.
Seeing the errormessage you get I would say that it's all down to permissions on the share you created.
To get things going I would suggest the following:
Make sure the account that's running the Subsonic service on Computer A has read and write permissions on the share on Computer B.
You can find out what account is running the service by running "services.msc". Find the Subsonic service and look in the properties to find out on which account it's running.
That account has to have permissions to acces the share on Computer B.
Like I said earlier: It's not just sharing folders, but also making sure the right account has permissions to acces the shared folders.

On the remote machine first you need to Share the drive itself so that other computers can see it, Right click the drive in Explorer and select Share with.
Now go to the machine which has Subsonic on it, in Explorer find under Network the machine, then find the drive and right click and use "Map network drive" or use the full name.

G8DHE wrote:On the remote machine first you need to Share the drive itself so that other computers can see it, Right click the drive in Explorer and select Share with.
Now go to the machine which has Subsonic on it, in Explorer find under Network the machine, then find the drive and right click and use "Map network drive" or use the full name.

Thanks for the detailed breakdown! Still having troubles, though:

Computer A: Computer with Subsonic install.
Computer B: Computer with additional media folder I'd like to share.

I go onto Computer B, right-click the drive, share with. Because this is a root drive, I only get the "advanced sharing" option, which I go into. Everyone has Read, Change, and Full Control.

I go onto Computer A, Explorer, Network, COMPUTERB. Find the share, right-click, map to a drive. I can access all the files normally, as expected.

I load up localhost:port on Computer A. Settings, Media Folders. I use the drive letter assigned earlier, type the proper folder name, click "Save", and... "Folder not found". I try going back to Explorer, with the shared drive still up, and copy-pasting directly from the address bar, just in case I forgot a colon or some leading slashes or something. "Folder not found".

If you have the time to type up step-by-step instructions of what you did that works for you, I'd be happy to follow along and set up the share from scratch, because I know Windows has like five different ways of doing almost-the-same-thing, and sometimes only one of those five ways will work.

You can acces the share on Computer B from Computer A, so that's not the problem.
The problem is that the account running the Subsonic service on your computer A can't acces the share.
To fix this you need to change the account that runs the subsonic service.
So on Computer A ( The subsonic server) you'll need to do this:
Press the Windows-key and R on your keyboard.
You'll get a window . Type in that Window services.msc
You'll get a list of all services that are running on Computer A.
Find the Subsonic service, right click it and select properties
Select the Log on tab.
Most likely the account that's selected is the Local System account
Select the second option and define there any user on Computer A that has acces to the share on Computer B.
So let's say you are logged in as QW on computer A and you can acces the share on computer B.
Now you change the account that runs the Subsonic service to .\QW. Next you have to type your password twice, click apply and you should be ready to go once you have restarted the Subsonic service.

have you tried giving the networked computer a drive letter?