Possible to share epg logo's?

[John@TunerUK]

I'm suprised nobody's asked this before, but a search didn't throw up any results, so here goes.

Is it possible to share the channel logo folder on the server, and have client machine's use the same folder?
I've tried editing the client properties file so that the channel logo folder was listed as the server's network folder but that didn't work.
e.g.
epg/logo_dir=\\SAGE-SERVER\Sage install folder\SageTV\ChannelLogos

I have noticed that the standard setting has double backslashes. where there is normally single backslashes.
For instance, my folder is located at:-
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\ChannelLogos
However sage.properties lists it as
epg/logo_dir=C\:\\Program Files\\SageTV\\SageTV\\ChannelLogos

Is this where I'm going wrong? Perhaps it isn't even possible, but it would be really handy if it was.

Thanks in advance

John

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by John@TunerUK

Is this where I'm going wrong?

never tried it with channel logos but yes that's where you are going wrong. \ is a special character in java so if you truly want \ in the string you need to escape it with a \... hence why there are double slashies in pathes....

[John@TunerUK]

So does that mean that I need to try

epg/logo_dir=\\SAGE-SERVER\\Sage install folder\\SageTV\\ChannelLogos

or

epg/logo_dir=\\\\SAGE-SERVER\\Sage install folder\\SageTV\\ChannelLogos

Well, I suppose trying both won't hurt

Thanks for that, I'll let you know how I get on

[razrsharpe]

epg/logo_dir=\\\\SAGE-SERVER\\Sage install  folder\\SageTV\\ChannelLogos

you could also move them out of the sage install folder....

[jbrandon]

Originally Posted by John@TunerUK

Is it possible to share the channel logo folder on the server, and have client machine's use the same folder?
...

I have been using Windows Live Sync to do just that. It is a free service and works great. I share several other directories on my server to laptops and other machines.

Before anyone slams me and Microsoft it does work very well but even if the connection is secure I do not share anything of which will compromise my personal security.

Jim

[John@TunerUK]

Cheers for the replies, that double backslash trick worked a treat