grrr media center import directory probs

[teknubic]

I purchased a Promise SmartStor NS4300N and 4x500GB drives for data storage/backup/redundancy/flashy lights and the first thing I needed to do after the mass file copy was point sage to the new location. I specify \\server\share and it comes back with "The directory does not exist. Would you like to create it?".
Here's where I think my problem lies: when I try to do it manually, it prompts for a password. I can't figure out how to remove user restrictions from a share on this device and it won't allow a user without a password.
SO ... what am I missing? Is there someplace to slip sage the keys to the directory? Anyone have one of these that can show me how to make it work the way I want instead of the way they think I want?
TIA

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by teknubic

I purchased a Promise SmartStor NS4300N and 4x500GB drives for data storage/backup/redundancy/flashy lights and the first thing I needed to do after the mass file copy was point sage to the new location. I specify \\server\share and it comes back with "The directory does not exist. Would you like to create it?".
Here's where I think my problem lies: when I try to do it manually, it prompts for a password. I can't figure out how to remove user restrictions from a share on this device and it won't allow a user without a password.
SO ... what am I missing? Is there someplace to slip sage the keys to the directory? Anyone have one of these that can show me how to make it work the way I want instead of the way they think I want?
TIA

I have one too. Haven't found a way around the user name problem yet. But it doesn't impact my SageTV server because I use Service Mode with a userid. That requires one with a password anyway to access network drives via UNC paths.

[gplasky]

What you could try on your Sage server is map a drive to your new SmartStor. It should ask you for the user name and password. Put that in there and make sure you check to reconnect every time. Make sure that same user and password exists on the Sage server. That may work. But like Bob mentioned above and what I did was run in service mode with that same user ID and password that the SmartStor requires and you should be good.

Gerry

[mwritter]

I can't get my sagetv hd theater to connect to my smarstor NAS... except when using the DLNA server. However, that doesn't allow me to play DVDs. :<(, the DLNA server appears to change the filetypes and the sagetv hd theater can't figure out the menu structure...

I can mount the smarstor NAS as a drive on my windows box but windows won't let me share that drive over the network (or reshare...). DVD files on my windows PC are found and played by the sagetv hd theater just fine.

I can mount the smartstor NAS as a drive on my mac box and the DVD files play fine.

Anyone have any ideas of how to access the smartstor as a NAS from the sagetv hd theater?

[mwritter]

It doesn't show up as being in the default workgroup - you have to change the name to something else (in my case I used HOME.) Then the sagetv hd theater picked it up.

The clue was that my windows pc also didn't see the smartstor in the workgroup named 'workgroup' while it saw other pcs in that workgroup... changing the name somehow kickstarted the smartstor so that it showed up in the home group for both my pc and the sagetv hd theater.

It's awesome how well this all works now. The DVD's are amazing.
-Mike