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I'm not sure if it is possible or not, but here is my situation... I currently have subsonic installed on my main computer and have my local music and videos folder streaming. What I would LIKE to do is stream the videos and music that are located on my ftp. For example, my music would be ftp.hightechstl.com/public_ftp/Shared/Music


Is this at all possible? My reason being is I have limited hard drive space but through my host I have unlimited space...

I've not seen it done by anyone here on the forum, but my guess is you'd have to figure out how to define the ftp directories as a network share. Subsonic doesn't like mapped drives (at least on Windows) so you need to define the ftp folders as network shares, but I've never tried it.

Thats what i've been trying to do. It's turning into a major pain in my neck trying to get it working. I have it setup as a network location but cant get it with a drive letter.

Can you just install subsonic on your FTP server? That would reduce bandwidth consumption to/from your main PC.

Just guessing, but it's more likley that he's just in a shared hosting environment or has storage allocation on another server that he doesn't have any admin priveledges on. One of Subsonic's quirks is that it doesn't recognize a mapped drive in the media folders entries, it will only recognize a local drive or a network share - at least on the Windows version.

I don't know of any way to define a remote ftp site as a network share, but that may be the only way to do what he's trying to do with things the way they are at present. Of course we are just guessing as he hasn't given us the details of what rights he has on the ftp storage.

GJ51 wrote:Just guessing, but it's more likley that he's just in a shared hosting environment or has storage allocation on another server that he doesn't have any admin priveledges on. One of Subsonic's quirks is that it doesn't recognize a mapped drive in the media folders entries, it will only recognize a local drive or a network share - at least on the Windows version.

I don't know of any way to define a remote ftp site as a network share, but that may be the only way to do what he's trying to do with things the way they are at present. Of course we are just guessing as he hasn't given us the details of what rights he has on the ftp storage.

You are correct. I have shared hosting.

Then we've about beat this horse into the ground until someone figures out how to define an ftp folder as a newtwork share or Subsonic learns how to recognize and use a mapped drive.