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More => Old Versions => Media Center 17 => Topic started by: BartMan01 on October 22, 2011, 05:54:17 pm

Title: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: BartMan01 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.'

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: Hendrik on October 22, 2011, 06:40:29 pm

Did you try mapping that path as a network drive?

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: BartMan01 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.

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: jmone on October 22, 2011, 07:31:31 pm

UNC is working fine for me in MC17

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: Matt 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.

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: BartMan01 on October 22, 2011, 09:04:21 pm

Email sent.

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: BartMan01 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.

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: BartMan01 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.

Title: Re: VMWare with UNC paths - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: BartMan01 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\*.*)

Title: Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: Matt 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.

Title: Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: Matt 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.

Title: Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: BartMan01 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.

Title: Re: VMWare with shared folders - MC17 can't see any of my files, MC16 works fine.
Post by: Matt on November 02, 2011, 07:47:28 pm

Thanks again for all your help on this one.