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[BryanC]

I know that it is possible to record TV on Library Server clients as long as file paths remain consistent between the server and client devices. However, I'm using a Linux server and Windows client so I cannot keep the paths identical. Is it still possible to record on the Library Server client? I do not care about accessing the recordings on the server. If not possible, are there any good ideas about how to overcome this...filesystem hacks on Linux for SMB shares or something like that so the filesystem naming conventions match?

[Yaobing]

Can you use UNC on both computers?

[BryanC]

I don't believe this is possible. Assuming I want to access the Windows client shares on the Linux server, I either need to mount them on the filesystem or use smb/cifs FUSE and an smb:// prefix on-the-fly. And the reverse is not possible because then I'm using Linux paths that Windows can't replicate.

I did find this option (NTFS symlinks) that I will tinker with. The slashes may still bite back, however.

[BryanC]

Unfortunately the NTFS symlink approach won't work because MC requires absolute paths for the recording path (with the disk identifier). Looks like I'm stuck.

[Yaobing]

The reason we did not allow clients to record unless there is an identical location name on the server and client is library data integrity. Clients use a copy of server's library.  If a client makes recording, but the server does not have access to it, we would have created bad entries in the library.

I wonder if we could allow the server to have missing entries as long as it does not try cleaning up such.