Hello, I have a problem with Sonarr toghether with transmission, as Sonarr only supports UNC paths, I have setup the download-folder in transmission to also be a UNC-folder, however transmission seems to be sending the file path back to Sonarr with forward slashes instead of backslashes, so Sonarr can’t find the files (that is //share… instead of \share). Any tips?
Are they on the same system?
Which OS?
A remote path mapping would be the easiest I think.
Same system, Windows 8. I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but what is a “remote path mapping”?
If Sonarr and Transmission are on the same computer why do you need to use UNC paths? If you download onto the local system you can use a local path.
Remote path mappings are on Download Client settings, it lets Sonarr understand paths from a remote system and translate them into a local path so Sonarr can import files.
Sonarr doesn’t handle mapped drives, so thats the reason that i have to use UNC-paths, Transmission handles mapped drives, but if i download to for instance y:\download, sonarr will say it doesn’t find the file. If I on the other hand download to \share\download, the way transmission sends the path back to sonarr causes trouble (as it will send back //share/download)
I tried the remote path mappings, (map y:\download to \share\download), but I didn’t get it to work, what do i have to fill in as the “computer name” when i use the local computer for both path?
Have you read the FAQ? Sonarr works fine with Network Drives, but not when running as a service (a limitation of Windows), you can switch it to run via the startup folder and use the mapped network drive.
It’s still unclear to we why you need to use a mapped network drive at all. What advantage is there to downloading to a share?
I’d recommend changing how Sonarr starts instead of remote path mapping, it will be easier if you change something later on.
The advantage of downloading to a share is that that is where i want to store the data. Not on any of the local disk of the computer running Sonarr. I will look into starting it with the startup-folder instead of using a network drive, to see if that is a better solution for my case. Thanks for the tip. But lets say I want to use path mapping, what would i put in “host” when both the doenloader and Sonarr is on the same system?
The hostname you used in the download client settings, likely localhost.