Is there a way to support a networked drive as a source for shows i want to test running NzbDrone on Windows 7 in a VM and i can add share folder which makes the drive show up as a mapped drive in the VM but not as a local drive so NzbDrone will not let me add it as a source
can we have it so instead of having D:\Shows\ as the sources to load exisiting shows we can input \\192.168.1.xx\Shows\
Yes you can, only limitation with that is mapped network drives won’t work with services, the FAQ, covers why.
I gave it a go and unfortunately did not work it tried turning on a Virtualbox Windows 7 install which i already have NzbDrone installed (just for testing purposes and to make my guide)
and i tried adding \\192.168.1.21\TV_SHOWS\ as the source which is a drive on my server and i get Path Not found
so i tried the same thing in my Host OS and it works so although i can access network shares from within my VM it will not add it as a source for my shows i tried mapping the drive so the drive is mapped to E:\ in the VM and still no luck
not really a huge deal i just wanted to see if i could setup a VM for my server with NzbDrone and sabnzbd on it so i could test possible hardware failure recovery scenario my plan was to create a server VM and configure it to my normal settings then do regular backups of the image (VHD) so if my OS drive dies i can boot the Image pre-configured to my secondary computer and have that running whilst i take my time to replace or diagnose broken hardware
my current situation is it is running as a native host on my server so whenever my server goes down for whatever reason i start getting complaints from impatient family members wanting to watch shows
I think for now my best best is to have a secondary OS drive on hand pre-configured so i can just swap it out in this situation won’t really be able to use it as easily on another machine but would help in the case of OS drive dies or virus issues i could remove that drive run the backup drive and then whilst that is running repair or get rid of original OS drive
not as convenient as a VM image but still an option
Maybe I’m misunderstanding this but what you’re saying is that NzbDrone cannot utilize either a full network path or mapped drive on a Windows 7 VM? Maybe Virtualbox is strange but I absolutely do this under ESXi (VMWare). I have tried both methods–both work for me. NzbDrone is on a Windows 7 VM (with Plex Media Server), TV shows are on an unRAID VM.
Is 192.168.1.21 the IP address of the host running the VM, or a completely different computer/NAS?
@protocol77 it definitely works, lots of people have it setup this way, if the path isn’t found it either doesn’t exist or its a permissions issue, as covered here: https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/FAQ#why-cant-nzbdrone-see-my-files-on-a-remote-server
thanks for the link it turns out simply just because running as a service i uninstalled the service then ran the .exe as admin and it worked straight away
thanks for the help guys