WHS Sage Server access to shares on another server

[rmac321]

Originally Posted by S_M_E

That's because the tutorial assumes that Sage is accessing it's own local shares and is running as the local system account. You're complicating it by wanting to access remote shares.

I disagree. Following the tutorial exactly does NOT work. You cannot setup the shares as you describe in steps 23-27 without first changing the user. Sage cannot see the shares on that same system. It can see them as local files, but not as shares.

Originally Posted by S_M_E

It's documented with the Windows documentation. Services.msc is not new nor exclusive to WHS.

I should have been more specific. This is not in any SAGE documentation.

[S_M_E]

Originally Posted by rmac321

I disagree. Following the tutorial exactly does NOT work. You cannot setup the shares as you describe in steps 23-27 without first changing the user. Sage cannot see the shares on that same system. It can see them as local files, but not as shares.

Completely untrue. I run my Sage+WHS as the default Local System Account and it sees the local WHS shares just fine. (see screenshot) Other people have followed the tutorial and they were successful too. Perhaps you've done something to your WHS but just because you cant make it work doesn't mean the tutorial is wrong. You don't have to change the logon for the SageTV service to access the WHS shares locally.

I should have been more specific. This is not in any SAGE documentation.

I'm still not sure there is any Sage documentation for installation and you should only have to change the user for the service logon if you want it to access outside shares. That is more common with another OS, like XP, etc but with WHS the storage is local.

[rmac321]

Originally Posted by S_M_E

Completely untrue. I run my Sage+WHS as the default Local System Account and it sees the local WHS shares just fine. (see screenshot) Other people have followed the tutorial and they were successful too. Perhaps you've done something to your WHS but just because you cant make it work doesn't mean the tutorial is wrong. You don't have to change the logon for the SageTV service to access the WHS shares locally.

What is the path you are drilling through in Sage import directory configuration? The only way I can find the shares is to go "up" 4 levels, then select "Network", <workgroupname>, <servername>. At this point, if guest access is on, I am presented with the shares, but if guest access is off I get "invalid directory". Is there a local path to the pseudo "shares" directory that I am not understanding or do you type in the path? Prior to today, typing a UNC path name never worked for me, but now it seems to work to add a local share.

Here's an interesting twist. If I add the shares while guest access is enabled and then disable guest access they seem to stay active. I've stopped and started the service and also reset the Server and Sage still finds the files even though I can no longer drill down to the directories from the configuration menu. Only time will tell whether they will remain valid...

[S_M_E]

Originally Posted by rmac321

Prior to today, typing a UNC path name never worked for me, but now it seems to work to add a local share.

Here's an interesting twist. If I add the shares while guest access is enabled and then disable guest access they seem to stay active. I've stopped and started the service and also reset the Server and Sage still finds the files even though I can no longer drill down to the directories from the configuration menu. Only time will tell whether they will remain valid...

I don't drill them down (and I never enable guest), I use "specify" and type them in, as per steps 24-27.

The good news is once you have them setup you should be done.