Network Drives in a Windows 7 Library

Moredhel · 6 Mar 2010 at 17:01

Hi,

Trying to add my NAS to my library, and have been thwarted thus far.

I can't use offline files because my largest contiguous disk space area is 200GB and the NAS is 4TB. I've tried creating a symlink and and indexing that, but that simply hasn't worked.

Is there any way I can convince Windows to index a NAS?

I know it's possible if the NAS does the indexing, but there's no way I can install Windows Search on it, as it runs XP embedded.

Moredhel · 6 Mar 2010 at 17:56

Ahaa,

Sorted it with Symlinks.

The trick is to create a directory called something sensible, say C:\NAS\Stuff. add that directory to your library, then delete c:\NAS\Stuff and create a symlink with mklink /D C:\NAS\Stuff y:\Stuff

C:\NAS\Stuff is still in your library but now it points to the contents of your NAS

Kona* · 6 Mar 2010 at 18:39

No way! I have been looking for how to do this for two days since getting my DNS-323!

Thank you

Moredhel · 6 Mar 2010 at 18:51

Glad I could help!

theheyes · 6 Mar 2010 at 20:23

Cool. You'd think there would be an easier way to do this though.

BloodyL · 6 Mar 2010 at 21:24

That's a great hack, well done!

Conrad11 · 7 Mar 2010 at 13:14

So it indexes the files OK. Or does it not index them?

Thats quite a good hack!

wolvers · 7 Mar 2010 at 18:53

I found that by adding the videos folder on my NAS, to the video library in Media center, it gets automatically added to the video library. The same also works for pictures and music.