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    Hi!

    I've got a software from Kodak for my digital picture frame (Kodak EasyShare), in which I can select folders to scan for pictures. Unfortunately this software doesn't seem to recognize anything with drive letters above w:, so the picture-folder under y: is not selectable.

    I there any possibility to change the drive letter of a share in Vail?

    Thanks in advance!

     

    Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:58 PM

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    Am I reading this correctly, that you are trying to install this Kodak software on your server? If that's the case, it's not supported. If it's on the client machine, you can map any share to any drive letter that is available or use \\ServerName\share.
    Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:03 PM
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    is there any possibility to change the drive letter of a share in Vail?

    No, you can't change the drive letters of the shares, because Drive Extender creates and manages both the shares and the associated "volumes".
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Friday, May 21, 2010 11:43 AM
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    Am I reading this correctly, that you are trying to install this Kodak software on your server? If that's the case, it's not supported. If it's on the client machine, you can map any share to any drive letter that is available or use \\ServerName\share.
    Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:03 PM
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    Yes, this is correct. The software installs a kind of streaming-server for the wireless frames, for that it would be a good solution not to need a client PC running. Green, you understand? Not supported doesn't mean not possible.The software installs without problems and is working, so only the picture folder which is by default on y: is useless. Other folders with pictures in work also until the drive letter stays below w:. Changing drive letters of the shares would be good in some other situations also, so again:

    is there any possibility to change the drive letter of a share in Vail?

    Friday, May 21, 2010 11:24 AM
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    There is no reason why you can't map a single location to two different drive letters which should get you over this issue.
    Friday, May 21, 2010 11:35 AM
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    is there any possibility to change the drive letter of a share in Vail?

    No, you can't change the drive letters of the shares, because Drive Extender creates and manages both the shares and the associated "volumes".
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Friday, May 21, 2010 11:43 AM
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    Simple solution.   On the Server, run from the command line:

     

    Net use g: \\servername\pictures

     

    This will create a new drive G: that points to the pictures folder.  It should be persistent.

    Monday, May 24, 2010 2:01 AM
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    Thanks for the hints, but doesn't work at all.

    Seems like EasyShare won't accept mapped shares, so the drive is not listed in the menu.

    No time to inspect further at the moment, so EOF here...

    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:23 AM
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    You could use the subst command for this potentially.

     

    subst "new drive letter": "path to the data you want on the new drive"

     

    e.g. subst f: t:\

     

    This will create a new local drive that is seen as f: but contains the same data that is at t:\

     

    Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:40 AM