libraries..

[mark]

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Anyone have any idea if it's possible to add folders to the libraries
without having to make the folders 'available offline' ?
I'm really trying to set up all (well most data that is) stored folders on
an attached NAS. Things like pictures, music and office documents.
The default named libraries allow it but I'm assuming they are 'offline
enabled' but any new folders that one tries to add will not allow it to be
done unless offline is addes.
Now, adding " always make available offline" means that a copy of that
folder is ALWAYS kept on the PC - duplicating the folder - which, if the
folder holds large files of music/video/pictures etc is, for me at least,
overkill.
Therefore, I'd like to use NAS as the *default* location for these files,
store them there, and have the PC 'point' to them for save/open commands.

Can it be done...? Registry hack..? Simpler than that..?
Or am I resigned to having the folders duplicated on the NAS and the PC
forever..!

any comments appreciated..


mark

 

[Kerry Brown]

The only way to do this is if the NAS is running a Windows OS with Search
installed. Most NAS' run an embedded Linux and aren't compatible with the
Libraries feature.

 

[mark]

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The only way to do this is if the NAS is running a Windows OS with Search
installed. Most NAS' run an embedded Linux and aren't compatible with the
Libraries feature.

Not sure if I fully understand this.
The NAS is a Buffalo Link Station which is windows 7 (..and others) OS
Compatible.
The actual storage disk is, well, just a disk for storage no...? Why would
it be at worth installing an OS on a disk storage device..?
I mean, I have that on the PC..!
This is something to do with how libraries work in W7 I think... they are
just references with files being stored elsewhere (anywhere, on the
computer) which they refer to.
Inside a library can be any number of folders and each folder can have any
number of folders contained within.... all of which are just referring to
where the file that is being accessed is ACTUALLY placed.
My desire is to have that reference *point* to the files on a NAS instead of
the computer, that's all.. W7 can do it, no probelm BUT.....it wants to
keep a duplicate copy on the PC as well.
Now, in some ways this might be useful as a constant back up of ones files
on a PC but for me, personally, I don't need to back my files up in this
way.
I'm sure there's a fix for this but where...?


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[Gordon]

Not sure if I fully understand this.
The NAS is a Buffalo Link Station which is windows 7 (..and others) OS
Compatible.

That means that you can access it (on the CLIENT) with either Windows or
MAC. It doesn't mean that the OS on the storage unit is either of those.

The actual storage disk is, well, just a disk for storage no...? Why
would it be at worth installing an OS on a disk storage device..?

It does a LOT more than just storage. In fact it's more like a mini server
which obviously requires an OS...

 

[mark]

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That means that you can access it (on the CLIENT) with either Windows
or MAC. It doesn't mean that the OS on the storage unit is either of
those.

Right. short of trying to communicate with Buffalo any idea how I find out
what the OS is then...?
(assuming the other post suggesting putting a windows OS onto the disk is
correct to resolve the *problem*)

It does a LOT more than just storage. In fact it's more like a mini
server which obviously requires an OS...

I'd better read the manual a bit more then...!!


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[Gordon]

Right. short of trying to communicate with Buffalo any idea how I find
out what the OS is then...?
(assuming the other post suggesting putting a windows OS onto the disk is
correct to resolve the *problem*)

Not that I know of. The OS is probably transparent so you can't actually see
what's running it. I looked on the Buffalo website at a manual for one model
but that didn't say what the OS was...

I'd better read the manual a bit more then...!!

 

[Airman Basic]

I have a Buffalo NAS, also. I just used the client utility included to
assign a network drive to the NAS, and added folders in windows explorer.
Just open the utility, click the 'Assign' tab at the top and proceed.

 

[Kerry Brown]

The Buffalo NAS uses a customized version of Linux for an OS. Someone else
has posted that if you install the Buffalo Windows 7 client Libraries will
work.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

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Right. short of trying to communicate with Buffalo any idea how I find out
what the OS is then...?
(assuming the other post suggesting putting a windows OS onto the disk is
correct to resolve the *problem*)

I'd better read the manual a bit more then...!!

mark

If you're referring to Kerry Brown's post, as I read it, it is *not* a
suggestion to put a Windows OS on the NAS, it is a suggestion to put
client software *on your PC* (and on the others in the network), which
will then add capabilities to the whole setup.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Personally I don't think there's anything you can do to add files on a Linux
based NAS to the library. Someone else made a post that seemed to say that
installing the client software that comes with the Buffalo NAS would allow
this. The post was a little ambiguous and I may have read it wrong. AFAIK
the only way to do it would be offline files which as was mentioned in the
original post isn't an optimum solution. What I meant in my first post was
that some high end NAS' use Windows Server software rather than Linux for
their OS. In this case you could install Windows Search and use the NAS in a
library on a Windows 7 computer. For libraries to work they have to be
indexed by Windows Search. This is built in to Vista and Windows 7. It can
be installed on other Windows OS' including Windows Server versions and XP.
I don't know of any Linux indexing software that's compatible. Even if there
was, most low cost NAS' don't have a way to install software on them.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

OK, I misunderstood you.

I still like the idea of software on the clients to provide the desired
functionality, but I have no idea whether any NAS systems provide that.
Of course, it could vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, or even
within one manufacturer's line of products. And on a given system, it
might be available for Windows but not Mac or Linux, or Mac but not the
other two, etc.

 

[mark]

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I have a Buffalo NAS, also. I just used the client utility included to
assign a network drive to the NAS, and added folders in windows explorer.
Just open the utility, click the 'Assign' tab at the top and proceed.

Ok.
But......the default folder (undeletable, by the way) on the Buffalo is
called "share" -along with "info" -and is already mapped, is it not?
I seem to think it's mapped because anyone on the network can see, open and
write to this folder...
I have no problems in creating folders on the NAS but the moment you want to
include them in libraries they seem to want to copy that folder to the PC as
well.
Are you saying just create folders, map them and then do not include them in
the libraries *system* ?
If so, does 'not' using libraries create other problems elsewhere..?
appreciate your comments.

mark

 

[Airman Basic]

Just try it and see if it works for you.

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Ok.
But......the default folder (undeletable, by the way) on the Buffalo is
called "share" -along with "info" -and is already mapped, is it not?
I seem to think it's mapped because anyone on the network can see, open and
write to this folder...
I have no problems in creating folders on the NAS but the moment you want to
include them in libraries they seem to want to copy that folder to the PC as
well.
Are you saying just create folders, map them and then do not include them in
the libraries *system* ?
If so, does 'not' using libraries create other problems elsewhere..?
appreciate your comments.

mark