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pettern
August 9th, 2011, 10:01 AM
The media manager is surprisingly lacking the ability to add mapped shares (to eg. X: or similar) or even network drivers. Surely this is a bug, right? Basically, I can't access any data as everything is on a NAS, is there any workaround for this glaring oversight?
darcilicious
August 9th, 2011, 10:06 AM
Mapped/network drives (e.g. x:) should work. \\server\folder will not.

What OS do you have BMM installed on?
pettern
August 9th, 2011, 10:18 AM
Mapped/network drives (e.g. x:) should work. \\server\folder will not.

What OS do you have BMM installed on?

Windows 7, and they don't even show up anywhere among Devices or Home so I'm not sure how they are supposed to work? It's not possible to add or type any paths manually.
darcilicious
August 9th, 2011, 10:23 AM
argh, i'm away from my computer just now so i can't recall -- is there a settings or a gear icon? or a plus "+" icon somewhere. unfortunately, you must browse to the item to add it, there's no way to manually enter them.
pettern
August 9th, 2011, 10:24 AM
There is no way to browse to the drivers using the + icon, they don't show up at all.
pettern
August 9th, 2011, 10:25 AM
@boxee_help on twitter told me to restart the manager and they showed up now.
darcilicious
August 9th, 2011, 10:28 AM
excellent, thanks for following up here too!
marcel
August 9th, 2011, 10:38 AM
@pettern enjoy ..
mchlmrtz
August 9th, 2011, 10:47 AM
Was having the same problem. Restarting the Media Manager fixed it. Thanks!
moller05
August 9th, 2011, 12:38 PM
I can't find them in the media manager on my Mac?
marcel
August 9th, 2011, 12:45 PM
Did you mount the NAS on your Mac?
moller05
August 9th, 2011, 12:47 PM
I can see it under the common in Finder and access them. Don't know if that's mounted correct then?

Now they showed up allthough I only can add every single folder 1 at a time
tipton
August 9th, 2011, 10:51 PM
the problem i am having is that i have an external drive plugged directly into my boxee. i have it networked so i can see it from any computer on my network but there is no way to add it to BMM because it does not have a drive letter.

is there any way to fix this?
darcilicious
August 9th, 2011, 10:58 PM
Yes, map the external drive as network drive so that it shows up as M: or somesuch.
tipton
August 9th, 2011, 11:03 PM
Yes, map the external drive as network drive so that it shows up as M: or somesuch.

awesome, thanks never knew that is what mapping a drive was, haha...
ptr727
August 25th, 2011, 10:51 PM
I have two drives mapped to a W2K8R2 server.
The mapped drives do not show up in the device list.
This is on Win 7 x64 SP1.

How do I get the mapped drives to show up?

P.