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BartMan01

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VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« on: October 22, 2011, 05:54:17 pm »
Running MC17 in VMWare Fusion under OSX.  
My file paths are all \\vmware-host\Shared Folder\...

MC16 is working fine, but MC17 can't see any files.  They all show up with the red x and locate disk external results in 'the file ... does not exist'.

If I try to manually add a file, I can browse out to the '\\vmware-host\' folders but when choosing a file I get 'Something went wrong with playback.  Details: The file could not be found. Check that the filename in the library matches the filename on disk.'
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2011, 06:40:29 pm »
Did you try mapping that path as a network drive?
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2011, 07:18:18 pm »
Quote from: nevcairiel on October 22, 2011, 06:40:29 pm
Did you try mapping that path as a network drive?

Is UNC broken in MC17?  I really don't like using mapped drives, since they only exist on a user by user basis.  I switched to UNC paths due to issues with mapped drive letters, but it has been so long I can't remember exactly what those were.
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2011, 07:31:31 pm »
UNC is working fine for me in MC17
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2011, 08:03:53 pm »
Could you email a log to matt at jriver dot com after you try playing a UNC path it can't find?

Thanks.
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2011, 09:04:21 pm »
Email sent.
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2011, 10:12:51 pm »
Tried opening one of the files using a mapped drive - got the same error.  Seems it is not related to UNC vs mapped drives.
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2011, 10:29:10 pm »
A little more info in case it helps:

Running OSX Lion on the host machine.  Running VMWare Fusion 4.0.2.
All files are on a drive connected to the Host machine and accessed via the VMWare Fusion shared folders.

I am using the shared folders, so I don't think SMB is in the mix but:  Apple used Samba with Snow Leopard and prior for SMB sharing, but removed Samba from Lion in favor of their own version of SMB support (due to Samba licensing requirements/issues).  I don't use the built in SMB functionality (I could never get it to work properly with most of my stuff), and instead have Samba 3 installed in Lion.
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Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2011, 09:55:02 am »
Not sure if one of these was in the log I sent, but I am also getting messages like this in the logs:

0005288: 2052: General: CFileSystemManager::GetDriveExists: Drive does not exist (drive: \\vmware-host, filename: \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Videos\TV Shows\Firefly (2002)\Season 00\*.*)

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Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2011, 03:16:52 pm »
In 17.0.22 and later I added more logging.

Please send me another log once you get a chance to try a newer build and we'll go from there.

Thanks.
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Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2011, 12:37:01 pm »
I think this should be fixed in 17.0.24 (and newer).

Thanks for all your help.
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Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2011, 01:30:37 pm »
Just want to confirm that .26 (first I've had a chance to try since .22) is working fine with the vmware shared folders file now.  Thanks.

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Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2011, 07:47:28 pm »
Thanks again for all your help on this one.
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