Network absolute path

[wallydaw]

(13-01-2016 23:26)tboooe Wrote:  

(13-01-2016 14:33)wallydaw Wrote:  I am very much a newbie to the world of Linux, and I would love to know if anyone can enlighten me about network absolute paths.
I have just got a Raspberry Pi and installed Minimserver and Minimstreamer. BBC Radio HLS AAC streams are working fine with the ContentDir in the suggested absolute path, on the micro SD card.
When I try to add another ContentDir pointing to a WD My Cloud NAS where the music library is, I get an error message such as 'Not an absolute path' or 'invalid file name' when I copy the path from the Pi File Explorer to the field or with just about any combination I can think of. The network is a Windows network.
I know that trying to use an NAS as the source of the music files may be a bit shaky, because of the heavy network load that would be involved. For the moment, I'm resorting to a USB hard drive plugged into the Pi as the music library.
Any help or comments such as 'don't go there!!!' would be greatly appreciated!

Can you please let us know exactly what you typed in to the content.dir property for the NAS? When I got the "not valid file name" error it was because my permissions were not set up right for that folder. Check out the log when you enter the path and see what kind of error you get.

I'll try this again tomorrow and check the permissions for the folder on the NAS. Thanks for the hint.