Can't find music on password protected NAS network drive

[nosmalldreams]

I am trying to use subsonic to stream music from my NAS storage drive. I think the problem is that the drive itself will not allow connections without feeding a username and password to the drive. (The drive itself does not allow me to set up public, non-password protected connections - brilliant design on their part, but that's a discussion for another day)

When I try to access the drive on a PC (via Windows Explorer, entering the device's sharename path as //MyDrive/MyShare), I am prompted for a username and password, enter them, and I am in, but I don't know how to feed that information via subsonic.

The users are set up on the drive itself - they have nothing to do with the users for my PC, so changing the PC user that subsonic service logs in as does not help. Is there any way to feed this information so I can use my music from that drive?

Many Thanks!

[delcypher]

Subsonic does not have the capability to handle smb/cifs authentications on it's own. You need setup your system so the network share is accessible as if it was a local drive.

You can do this by setting up a "Mapped network drive". This can map \\MyDrive\MyShare to a drive letter e.g. k:\

See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/maintain/mapdrive.mspx
http://www.webdavsystem.com/server/access/map_drive

You would then would add a music folder in subsonic that used the mapped network drive e.g.

k:\mymusic\

Hope this helps.

[nosmalldreams]

I actually already do access the drive as a mapped drive but the problem is the drive is password protected and I can't turn the password protection off and the pc prompts for the password when I try to connect but subsonic does not. Thanks for your aid ¡